Eric Meyer has put up a nice little article about using CSS floats and some of the pitfalls involved with the ways they are rendered. Not exactly indepth, but it puts forward some techniques to make working with floats that bit easier and more predictable.

I do admire OpenOffice.org, and use its products on Linux. I’m starting to use them on Windows aswell, recently. However, I’d be the first to admit that OpenOffice needs quite a bit of polish. The basic features are all there now, it just feels rather clunky. So it was with interest I read the product concept for version 2 of the suite. If they manage to do all that the document says they hope to, OpenOffice will become a lot more pleasant to use. Version 1.1 has improved things, but the ideas for 2 are leaps and bounds ahead of the current version. Good luck, guys!

ShellOn, SharpMenu, dWall, dClock and dCron are all living in CVS now. Feels that little bit more, well, proper and less “on the edge” I guess. Now, I guess I should set up dCron to have a job to backup the CVS repository. (More news on my dCron progress later…)

dCron has come on quite well over the weekend. You can now specify weekdays, dates and months to run programs in. The app also supports named days and months as well as ranges, for example “mon-fri” and “oct-may”. Seems to be near a release. I’m going to leave it running quietly this week to see what happens, whether it silently does it’s job or wakes me up at 4am one day rather than 7am =)

It looks like Zeldman has also been hit by the spamming attack that hit me with fifty emails this morning. So I’m not the only one.