One word: riff. I've been listening to Elephant today, it's the first guitar record I've liked in a couple of years. It combines so many good things effortlessly, the New York Dolls, a nod in the direction of Iggy Pop, a raucous scream of Jon Spencer, almost through to Nick Drake. Seven Nation Army is an army of itself, at first I thought that was why I had the album, but on second listen the rest of it is a good whole. When isn't second listen still a voyage of discovery? I should learn. I'm particularly liking the Exploding Blues Geetar Squuuueeelllllslsllslaaaaa. Rockin'.

I listen to this record in isolation of all other NYC indie rock records, except for the obvious mortal kombat with The Strokes, but I think it's quality. Stroke-comparisons are totally superficial as well, the Stripes are a much deeper band.

It's nice when you're right, but I didn't expect this. More music has been bought through iTunes Music Store in 2 days than in six months on all the competing legal download services!!

You can't connect one of the new 12" Powerbooks to the cinema displays. Not without a $300 non-Apple adapter.

:-(

I'd set my heart on just that config, now I don't know what to do. I might buy a 15" Powerbook instead, but that drops bluetooth and Airport Extreme (which I'm less bothered about). It also is much bigger. It does give me more CPU power, but I don't really want a bigger machine, plus the larger built-in screen devalues the usefulness of a second monitor almost enough for me to not be bothered. The problem is that the Powerbooks only have a VGA output, which is analogue. Humph. Maybe they'll change that in the interim period between now and when I buy, which is likely to be about three months.

In addition to the list of stuff from last night. I think it's worth saying that CSS is a tricky bugger and making it easier might mean more people would adopt it. Also, I think that new syntax would be better than garbling the old. For example, it might be possible to expand the box model to allow absolutely positioned blocks to affect the flow of their containing blocks, but then 100% of browsers would be breaking the standard, rather than leaving some part of it out.

Also I've been wondering about a property for the grid called folding which somehow explains to the browser what it's supposed to do when it's narrower than the min-width of the grid (as defined by the contents if necessary) or indeed shorter than the min-height. This property might be a list of indices to sub-blocks or IDs, in order, which explains to the browser the order of the content so it remains readable. Of course the order of the content is generally the order of the elements in the HTML... hmmm. I have little idea how this might function. I'm just throwing it out there. It might turn out to be easier to leave the adapting to small browsers to media queries.

Wired had the problem apparently, What do I know's Todd Dominey has it too, I damn well have it. IT MUST DIE!

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