This is splorp.

Archive.

Thursday, February 09, 2006 Link / Comments (0)

Cascading style shite.

Pardon the dust. I'm mucking about with the CSS on this sorry excuse for a personal site. The plan is to migrate away from the current steaming pile of table-plagued, almost nearly valid markup over to some sort of XHTML loveliness before the end of this month. This plan is similar to the one that I've had in the works for the past four or five years... but have never managed to implement. While the day job always seems to sport spiffy new interweb togs, the home office still wears hand me downs. I've determined that if I go ahead and start forcably noodling with the markup and styles, I will eventually come out with something I'm either happy with... or something so fubar'd that I'll have to scrap the whole thing and start over. Either way, we're talking refreshed and invigorated. And if I happen to document the process along the way, this tired old blog may get it's second (or third) wind before it's next anniversary as well. Quote your attributes! Close your tags! Full validation straight ahead.

One stop shopping.

Calgary seems to be a popular place to shop for visual content companies. One 800-pound gorilla in particular has loaded up his cart once again. If you haven't already connected the dots, Getty Images bought iStockPhoto.com (and some apparently intangible assets) for fifty million smackers. Holy mother of crap. After the initial fuzz of bewilderment wore off, I wanted to extend a firm congratulatory handshake to Bruce, Brad, Pat, Kelly and the rest of the crew over at that other stock photo joint across town. Fifty million. It's not often a ball like that lands in your yard. I can't imagine anyone tossing it back over the fence. Now, I don't wish to dampen the festivities... but where is the logic in this? What's the math? That's one hell of a lot of cash to pay for some incremental, heavily-weighted non-commerce web traffic and a vocal community of folks who enjoyed iStock specifically because it wasn't Getty. Good luck, you nutty kids. Having been part of a previous Getty merge and purge, I have a feeling you're going to need it.

Furthermore.

Blog archives

Back

Meta.

Subscribe to posts (RSS)
Subscribe to available domain name of the week (RSS)
Subscribe to available domain name of the week (Atom)

ISSN 1496-3221