Kim Siever’s Blog

I came across this RealAudio file of an episode of the The Mighty Hercules cartoon.

That sure brings back memories.

I just realised today that GMail has an RSS feed. It seems it only works on unread messages in the inbox, however. No read messages and no archived new messages.

Anyone going to Web Design World in Seattle next month?

IE now has tabbed browsing!

Well, sort of. You have to install the MSN toolbar. The 1.2 version of the MSN toolbar now allows IE users to have tabbed browsing functionality. It appears the functionality is available to users of IE 5 and 6.

So what takes IE so long?

My branding efforts must be working. Recently I have had two visitors to my site who came here after searching Google for “red pepper kim siever” and “HOT PEPPER KIM SIEVER”. I also a visitor who had searched for “hot pepper blog”, but it’s difficult to say if they were searching for my blog or a generic blog about hot peppers.

Nevertheless, it appears my decision to brand myself with a hot pepper is starting to pay off. People have started to associate me with a hot pepper. We’ll see where I can go with this.

I am not sure how recent it was, but I noticed today that Globe and Mail—one of Canada’s national newspapers—recoded their website to be more standards compliant. The site validates at only 24 errors, a far cry from the hundreds it had previously, and many of the current errors are minor (such as not encoding ampersands in URLs).

What made me take a look was their recent addition of a text sizing option in the top right hand corner of articles pages. This feature is common on CSS-based sites, so I thought I’d take a look under the hood. They have a way to go still (there are the occasional table and font tag), but their code has become more semantic and more of the styling has been thrown into the CSS file.

And they have an RSS feed to boot.