Posts from October 2000

Did you know that you can use DHTML to implement Dynamic Balloon Help on your site?

I took a class in early 20th century American literature while I was a student at the University of Florida. Every essay, book, or article we read struck someone somehow. I got so disgusted by students saying, “What struck me about…” or, “I was struck by…” that I wrote a response paper asking the professor to imagine me striking a student on the head with my Norton Anthology the next time someone said something about being struck. I found a list of world wide web dangerous words today and it reminded me of that class.

Featurette Guide

I just noticed that my Featurette Guide made it into the Community section of Weblog Madness.

Conversations in the Car

Interesting conversations often take place in the car.

Spinning Away

Spinning Away – Sugar Ray

Gator Links

Gator Links

Spurrier keeps focus on SEC East … Sheppard may sit out Saturday. It’s Grossman’s job to keep at UF.

BrainTaxer

Have a go at Howard Bickel’s Braintaxer, another fine creation from the folks at the Internal Revenue Service.

If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you’re in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don’t know what to tell you.
from Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

I Go To Extremes

I Go To Extremes – Billy Joel

Lay Down Sally

Lay Down Sally – Eric Clapton

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.