8 Ways to Sunday

A year-old, but still-commented-on, post at Delta Tango Bravo (Best Obtuse Blog Tagline Ever) got me in the mood for this one.

I’ve seen a lot of good band names, and I’ve made up several of my own just for fun. By far the best actual band name I’ve ever run across, however, belongs to Honest Bob & the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives. I’ve never heard their stuff, though a review of their first album dubs it “‘nerd rock’… in the same class as They Might Be Giants or Weird Al, although sans accordion.” Sounds like something I might like.

Those with an abiding interest in good band names should also check out Todd Gehman’s excellent list.

On a slightly different topic, the award for best self-description on a band poster goes to OPhil for “Hillbilly Glam Ska.”

On a completely different topic, DTB has a nice gallery of well-done favicons — those little icons that appear in your address bar when you browse some web sites.

Boy, am I random with this post or what?

For the past week or so, I’ve been noodling around on a redesign of 8 Ways to Sunday as a way to get my bearings in Macromedia Studio MX 2004. I’ve only done about 15% of the work, if that, but I’m getting an increasingly solid idea of what I’d like to accomplish: (more…)

I’ve been wondering how to do this with the “Navigate” section of my sidebar for some time now. After all, it’s pointless to have a navigational link back to the page you’re already on. Snook.ca has the .js file to make it easy for you.

Because the masthead of each page on my blog also links back to the home page, I had to make a small change to the CSS to keep it looking consistent when this script stripped it of its link. Other than that, a very simple update to make.

Now, if I can only figure out how do do this with PHP I’ll really have something. I’m not dissing Jonathan Snook’s JS solution here, I’d just rather do without the “blip” effect you see as the script does its thing after pageload.