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15 April 2004

Keith told me to:

  1. Grab the nearest book.
  2. Open the book to page 23.
  3. Find the fifth sentence.
  4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

From a book called Defensive Design for the Web by 37signals:

This poor messaging is bound to create further confusion.

Well, quite.

- Drew McLellan

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  1. § Mike Jones: From Linux in a Nutshell

    This configures the interface as a point-to-point link to ruby, adds the route to ruby, and makes it a default route, specifying ruby as the gateway.

    Well, quite too.
  2. § Drew: More power to ruby.
  3. § amanda owen: From GUI Bloopers :

    It does not mean “Get the functionality designed and implemented first, and worry about the user interface later”.
  4. § Michael: From Cold Mountain:

    Signs and wonderings both large and small did sometimes make transit from that world to our own.

    I think it’s pretty.
  5. § Nathan Pitman: Hmm, how odd. recognise this?

    In particular, this chapter covers the Dreamweaver MX Assets panel, the Site Manager, and the site-reporting tool.

    From Dreamweaver MX Web Development
  6. § Lonnie Olson: Arithmetic operators are evaluated in the order your math teacher taught you (exponentiation before multiplication; multiplication before addition).

    From Programming Perl, 3rd Edition
  7. § Gabe: We start with a value for the radicand (the number whose square root we are trying to compute) and a value for the guess.
  8. § Isaac: Find the length of diagonal AC in the rectangular solid shown.

    From Advanced Math

    (d’oh… I guess that means I’m supposed to be doing homework.)
  9. § poop: I believe this
    is where it started…
  10. § Eivind Lie Nitter: Dim put on a hound-and-horny look of evil, saying: “I don’t like you should do what you done then.”

    (Ok, that was perhaps two sentences)

    From A Clockwork Orange
  11. § Ronan: What do you do if your ‘page 23’ doesn’t have a fifth sentence?
  12. § Jams: The House Of Whacks by Matthew Branton:

    Falling in love – really, in love – must be like that.
  13. § David House: Amputation – nounLittle Oxford English dictionary :)
  14. § kenneth: I can’t emphasize enough that the most important factor in creating a site on a shoestring budget is to consciously restrict the scope to include a limited set of achievable functional requirements. — from Carrie Bickner’s Web Design on a Shoestring
  15. § damien seddon: So the third day of their pursuit began.

    From The Two Towers

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Drew McLellan (@drewm) has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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