About LCDs

For the majority of the past 8 years I've been a professional student. What does this mean? No money. So with my empty pockets I decided to completely ignore everything that was happening with flat panel displays. I mean, why drool over something that you can't have?

Now that the money is flowing in regularly I've decided that maybe its time to have one of those ultra cool computer setups as seen on Flickr's Pixel Rigs Group. Well maybe not so extreme.

Problem was, I had no idea what were the pros and cons between the various LCD technologies. Enter a couple of threads on hardforum. One gives an excellent overview on the current TFT LCD technologies and the pros/cons between all of them. The other provides an almost complete index of all the LCDs currently out there and the kind of technologies each of them uses.

I'm still probably going to go with my original choice of a Dell Ultrasharp 2408wfp, but it was nice to learn about the various technologies out there.

Learning Cascading Style Sheets

Recently, I've decided that it was time to do a Winter cleanup on all my web content. Who knows maybe this will be a yearly tradition! The first step for me though, is changing the look of my home page. The thing looks abysmal:


So I've been dabbling around with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). I've played with it a couple times over the years, but unfortunately, its one of those things you got to work with constantly to get really good at.  Considering this, I decided it was best to go back to basics.

First google hit for CSS, is the site Cascading Style Sheets which provides an awesome index for websites that will help you learn CSS.