Comments on: Rolodex update

By: Corrine

Corrine — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 02:17:39 +0000

Joe Wilcox has already made an impact in his new digs. I came close to removing RSS feed for “Microsoft Watch” from my daily reading. With the new life injected into the site, it will stay on my reading list. I particularly enjoyed the recent “Microsoft, Give Thanks”. Keep up the great work.

By: Joe Wilcox

Joe Wilcox — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 03:56:13 +0000

Ed Bott wrote: “Joe, I was viewing your website in Firefox 2.0, so you can’t blame this one on IE7!”

Really, Ed? Now I have to speak to the designer. On Monday night, she e-mailed to ask for site access. She said she could tweak the CSS code so it would render in IE 7. I’ll have to check the logs to see if she accessed the site. Because if she did, the IE 7 fix might have hosed Firefox 2.0. If you saw black text on brown, instead of white, then the stylesheet wasn’t loading. I can promise the site had worked fine in Firefox 2.0. It’s what I used because of the IE 7 problem. It’s all moot. There’s a new template, and it’s fine in both browsers. Thanks. Joe

By: Ed Bott

Ed Bott — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:27:26 +0000

Joe, I was viewing your website in Firefox 2.0, so you can’t blame this one on IE7!

By: Joe Wilcox

Joe Wilcox — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:04:38 +0000

Good spotting, Ed, on my whereabouts. Yes, I have returned to journalism, and, yes, I’m sure there will be a formal announcement. Holidays are part of the reason for delaying.

Also, thanks for that helpful comment yesterday.

As for my personal Website, don’t be so hard on the Web designers. The design rendered right in every browser on the planet, except Internet Explorer 7. There were issues with the main cascading stylesheet (which didn’t load at all) and IE 7. Yesterday, I switched to a holiday motif design that works fine with IE 7.

Joe

By: Carl Siechert

Carl Siechert — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:09:37 +0000

You enticed me to visit Joe's blog. You're right: this might be The Ugliest Blog Ever. But don't blame Joe. He apparently paid a "professional" designer for this masterpiece. Note the credit line at the bottom. Wondering what else Weblog Design Studios could be blamed for, I found this gem in their portfolio.

By: orcmid

orcmid — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:38:11 +0000

From my clippings file, it looks like things got quieter around the end of August and then Joe popped up on this radar screen: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/108735.asp?source=rss

I actually don’t track Todd Bishop. This piece showed up in “Robert’s shared items in Google Reader,” http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/14480565058256660224/state/com.google/broadcast (a little deep linking back-atcha, oh Mr. Google man).

I find Robert’s Google Reader has a pretty amazing level of relevance for me, almost more than Scobleizer’s own blog in terms of where his immediate focus is these days. It has me want to try it too, but I’m already finding too many ways to distract me from my current gig.

PS: I just started moving my e-mails to A2 also. Smooth as silk. The only bitter-sweet part of my move was finding out that Apache is case sensitive and none of my Microsoft-culture tools know from that.