Tuesday, December 12 2000

The Globe and Mail on "Renaissance Man" Paul Greenlaugh

Mr. Greenlaugh is the new president of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, although the article seems to spend more time reliving the glory days of Garry Kennedy. Some items not mentioned in the article : During the last "official" president's tenure it was as much the students as the faculty that drove her away. Whether this was a good thing or not is another story; one thing is sure, she had *no* idea how to talk to twenty year old art students full of piss and vinegar. Eric Fischl is still hated and generously slagged by the painting faculty. The story goes that Garry Kennedy managed to secure the current location after making a very convincing argument that the school should, in fact, be housed on an old aircraft carrier that was then anchored in the harbour. The guy who ran the print shop and printed the "I will not make any boring art" print now does now does all his work on the web and is one of the best teachers I've ever had. He is also the guy who saved this print when, after a almost two months of work and a second all-nighter of etching, I discovered that I hadn't grained the biggest stone in the department evenly.

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developerWorks : Abstracting the interface

"Using XML to describe parts of a Web app user interface can make it easy to convert the UI for multiple devices via XSL style sheets. The article describes using XML data and XSL style sheets to build the user interface of complex Web applications. A Web calendar sample application demonstrates the basic techniques and concepts."

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It says something, I think,

when Wired gets scooped by The New Yorker on a website. I think it says the same thing that The National Post making front-page news out of the idea that "Winnie the Pooh is suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and could be prone to Tourette's syndrome, Eeyore has chronic depression and Christopher Robin is in the midst of a gender-identity crisis" says, but I'm not sure.

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This snow was shamelessly pilfered

from the good people at pssst! who grabbed the code from a guy name Alton.

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