Making the best of a bad thing.

Spamusement! takes the subject lines of real spam email messages, and turns them into cartoons. the page says that they're poorly drawn, but honestly, they are much better than what I could do.

Can we boot it? Yes we can!

over the past couple of days, I've been working on an older laptop that's been having some unpleasant troubles with Windows 98.. while reading through some options that I have to fix it, I found myself in need of a Windows 98 boot disk. the usual means of creating one of these beasts is to use Windows 98 itself to create it. unfortunately, since this machine wouldn't boot, and I didn't have a Windows 98 machine handy (and haven't for several years), I needed to find some other means of creating a boot disk.

enter Google. with a little bit of searching, I can across a couple of sites that offer both standard and custom Windows bootdisk solutions.

Bootdisk.com

this site hosts several types of bootdisks, as well as links to various updates and drivers. it's useful, but difficult to navigate. a direct link to their bootdisk downloads is helpful to have.

FreePCTech.com

this site also hosts boot disks for MS operating systems, from DOS 6 through XP SP1. it also has several special purpose boot disks.

one should note that while these sites both say that their boot disks are virus free, one should always take care when using disks from an unverified source. it's better to be safe than sorry, yes?

CSS fun (updated)

here's some links to some great Cascading Style Sheet resources... more than enough to keep you busy for a few days.

The css-discuss Wiki

The Wiki associated with the css-discuss mailing list. very helpful/useful.

CSS Zen Garden

this site demonstrates the power of CSS. all of the 'skins' have been created using CSS 1.

Mezzoblue

a regularly published blog that is a companion to CSS Zen Garden

Holy CSS Zeldman!

this has to be one of the largest and best organized collections of CSS Resource links out there.

A List Apart

a weekly webmag that provides articles on webdesign and CSS.

W3 CSS Validator

the W3 CSS Validator. make sure that everything is good in your CSS.

W3 Markup Validator

Can't have valid CSS without valid markup...