Archive for October, 2004

Lost in Translation

Thursday, October 7th, 2004

Some jokes showed up in my email box today. While I don’t normally reward Spam, some of these were pretty good.

The American Dairy Association was so successful with its “Got Milk?” campaign, that it was decided to extend the ads to Mexico. Unfortunately, the Spanish translation was “Are you lactating?” [...]

Baby Photos

Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

I’ve been reorganizing my site recently, so if you’re looking for the links to photos of little Christian, you can view them at: http://gallery.shao.org/main.php?g2view=core:ShowItem&g2itemId=796

Moving to Markdown

Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

I’ve started using John Gruber’s Markdown. While I’ve been a fan of the Textile system for a while, Markdown’s sytax feels cleaner to me, particularly when you’re looking at it in plain text. The main purpose of the various markup generators to me seems to be to ensure that your formatting distracts as [...]

Gap Reveals Human Rights Conditions

Monday, October 4th, 2004

Fast Company | Gap’s New Look: The See-Through

On May 12, Gap Inc. released a report that had jaws dropping in corporate boardrooms and activist corridors across the land. The 40-page “social-responsibility report” details, with unflinching honesty, the problems the $6.5 billion clothing retailer found in the 3,000 factories it contracted to produce clothing for its [...]

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