Posts from year 2003
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One night in Bangkok
Bangkok doesn’t sleep. It sweats, it hazzles, it seduces. It’s a neon fever dream that hits you like a tuk-tuk running red lights at 3 am. A city with no filters, no cares and certainly no apologies.
Diving at the Similan Islands
Out there, somewhere off the Andaman coast of Thailand, are nine chunks of granite scattered like a careless god’s afterthought. The Similan Islands. Remote, wild and blissfully ignored by the sunburned herds sipping cheap cocktails in Phuket.
Finding the beach in Phi Phi Islands
Thailand is one of the most popular backpacker destinations in the world. People arrive in droves to eat the delicious food, enjoy the sun and take a swim at the beautiful beaches. Everyone I speak with claims to have visited a very special beach, and I guess some of this talk comes from “The Beach”.
The temples of Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai is the biggest city in northern Thailand, but far more friendly than it’s chaotic sibling Bangkok. Up here in the north, the heat is less suffocating than Bangkok’s chokehold, but it still clings to your skin like guilt.
Patterns in storytelling
You have probably read a book and recognized many of the story lines without having read it before. There are certain patterns which are very common in fiction literature and tends to show up in all sorts of colorful disguises.
Creating a dropdown menu in CSS
Dropdown menus are often done with a lot of JavaScript but I wanted to do one using CSS. It is reasonably cross-browser and standards compliant.
Client-side table sorting using DOM scripting
There are many ways to sort a table containing tabular data. A common approach is to perform the sort on the server using ASP or something similar, maybe out of routine using the same thought pattern as in ordinary desktop applications.
Lonely day in Helsinki
Helsinki isn’t the kind of place that throws itself at you. No loud cheers, no fake smiles. It stands there, quiet and desolate, like a Finn at a bus stop in February with a fur coat zipped high, eyes stoically fixed on some distant point beyond the horizon.
Layers of history in Rome
The layers of Rome don’t politely hide under glass. They spill out into the streets, tangled with modern life like a drunken uncle at a wedding. Young lovers hide among broken columns while a noisy Vespa drives along the heavily trafficked Via dei Fori Imperiali.
The road to web standards
Web standards are a set of technologies from standards organizations. By using web standards developers can maximize the probability that sites work satisfactory in most browsers and environments, making web content as accessible as possible.