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Re: Hope For The Best, But Prepare For The Worst

webomatica — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:12:09 -0000

Glad someone is enjoying these brief diversions from Apple and movie
reviews. I had a few months of ill timed unemployment at the tail end
of the .com boom, which now I look back in retrospect as one of the
best things that happened in our marriage, since it forced us to get
on the financial straight and narrow. Definitely no financial expert,
but we're doing okay.

Oh, and a handy subscription to The Economist is recommended - you
UKers have a better take on politics and global finance than any US
magazine. They called the housing bubble quite a while back (2005) http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story...

Re: Hope For The Best, But Prepare For The Worst

Phil — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:06:50 -0000

Dude, you've said some damn sensible things in these posts and it does keep me thinking too. Even though I'm in the UK, the situation isn't too different and what goes down on your side of the pond will affect me. I like to think I'm safe, and I do actually have some very fortunate circumstances, but, given that normal people's (not just bankers) jobs could start to go, it could be time to take stock and consider how long I could last without employment.

Time to prepare for the worst.

Re: RussellBeattie.com - CSS3 and the death of Handheld Stylesheets

Phil — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:47:40 -0000

Hi Russell, thanks ever so much for the link. I am interested in, but holding back on using media queries as they are only supported in the two mobile browsers you mention, Opera 7+ and Safari 3. The problem is not that other browsers don't support them, but that Internet Explorer doesn't understand them entirely properly and may apply styles in media queries that shouldn't be applied. If you apply a certain amount of caution things should be ok, and developing solely for mobile platforms should be safe as the two most advanced and popular browsers are the ones that correctly support the standard.

Having said that, I think I'll grab a copy of Opera or Safari and see what I can do with some creative media queries! I must look into this plugin you're talking about too, it sounds very interesting!