adam kalsey has whipped together a snazzy css tabs implementation with submenus that looks great and survives a first run through the browser gamut.

Photopal 1.0 Beta:

“PhotoPal is an image organization system featuring template driven layout, automatic thumbnail creation, RSS feeds, picture level EXIF date extraction, and picture level descriptions, all without the need for an SQL like database.”

[ via inluminent ]

Instant messaging for e-business:

“In this article, Gerhard Poul shows how XML-based Jabber fits into today’s e-business infrastructure, lighting instant messaging in a whole new way. You’ll see that you can use Jabber to integrate your existing e-business into a more dynamic and personal environment. Your e-business site will be able to communicate with its users faster and integrate itself into their lives — and you’ll have fun learning and playing with what Jabber offers.”

i have no time to digest if this is some kid of wierd ponzi scheme, but in the midst of wading through my emails tonight, i noticed a nice email from someone named john who bought every single last one of my snowdeal blogshares and is willing to give them to me. as soon as i get back from chicago, john, i’ll take you up on the offer. thanks.

les has noticed the blognoise problem and coined the slighly-less-trippingly-off-the-tongue, “google blog clog”. kellan posits that we’re really talking about linguistic convergence, which sounds like a topic worthy of a dissertation:

“My thought is perhaps we’re seeing the effect of Google having a language based interface. I search in English, and therefore I’m much more likely to get English results back. Most of the people I know speak English. On the Net however this doesn’t proscribe the field much. I think perhaps it needs to be broken down beyond that, I don’t just speak English, I speak a vernacular informed by age, class, education, social environment, etc. My word choices are a product of culture. For example Mako and Josiah from the above thread have both had significant impacts on the Linux culture I was raised in. Could even my 3 word query display a language bias?”

great. i’m going to chicago for a few days and i see that they are simulating terror. maybe i should add a few more minutes to the already horrendous drive times.

anyone who has beaten their heads against the css wall might want to go relax in the css zen garden. lots of purty stuff in there, although i haven’t bothered to do any cross-browser testing yet.