Robert Accettura's
Fun With Wordage

Took an Art History trip to visit The Gates (Wikipedia Link), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Of course I snapped some Camera Phone pictures. Note I was walking the entire time, so these were all made while walking on ice.

When visiting the gates, if you ask one of the “Pole People” (the people with poles that have Tennis balls affixed to one end so they can unwrap a gate should the fabric be blown and twisted), you can get a sample of the fabric used. Rather interesting free souvenir.

Afterwards visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art and checked out some of their stuff. I spent some time roaming in there and got somewhat lost (intentionally didn’t carry a map, just drifted where I felt I wanted to go at the moment). Noteworthy is the Frank Lloyd Wright Living Room (who designed the nearby Guggenheim), and some of the armor and weapons they collected. Rather cool stuff.

If your not updated yet, get downloading!

Mainly security/stability fixes. Nothing really “new”. But it’s still important to upgrade.

Everyone should give Mitchell a giant thank you for all the hard work in securing this. I can’t wait to check out what’s going on!

Well, got up, checked my email, hit the shower, had breakfast, and went to class:

World Lit 2/24 Canceled: Enjoy the Snow

Well thanks for the Email! Oh well…. on my way back I snapped a few pictures of the snow (from the Camera Phone).

Edit: 2:30 pics posted. Last one is a cheap rip off of Christo’s “The Gates”. Ok, it’s just some construction barrier.

I’ve mentioned this before. Firefox again is on the homepage. Now celebrating the 25 Million Milestone.

That’s some good press. Yahoo gets a lot of hits. And that title just yells out “Lots of people are checking out Firefox… have you?”

Don’t just take back the web. Take it back with a loud voice! Congrats Everyone!

btw: If your not spreading the word. Help Out now. Get those links in your blog, on your AIM profile, in your forum signature, etc. etc. Be creative!

I’ve got a bit of a complex question here for all you professional web developers:

Environment
Website targeting international users in all 24 timezones. Website based in US.

Problem Summary
How do you handle timezones correctly? What is the best strategy?

Problem Expanded
The particular problem I see is Daylight savings. I’ve seen several sites ask it based on GMT (-5 for New York for example). Now what that misses is Daylight Savings. Not everyone in all timezones participates, and each has a different time when they implement it. Keeping it in GMT isn’t exactly desirable either, since users need to know the time (in their timezone).

Anyone take on the issue? I’ve searched high and low, and yet to see a good solution. Most just leave it as GMT, or hide times (put it in very low contrasting color compared to it’s background for example).

Slightly quiet over the past few days. Several things going on. First of all school is busy (lots of work and studying). Then I’ve been hacking away at several projects. Lots of fun there. Not to mention some TV time, and just relaxing. Everyone needs some of that.

I’ll be checking out the “The Gates” in Central Park, NYC later this week as I’ll be in the city. I’ll be sure to take my camera phone and snap a few low-quality pictures (they still are pictures), and post them here for all my non-Northeastern US and international readers. So keep an eye out for those. I’m planning to put those up sometime before the weekend (likely Friday night).