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Anyone paying attention to independent bands knows that gear and money get stolen all the time while on the road. The same misfortunes can happen to designers, too.
From the inbox:
Hello everyone. Last night, a friend’s car was broken into and our main computer (a Macbook Pro) and main hard drive were stolen including a a friend’s iPod.
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We are not asking for donations. What we are asking for is help in a different way. Any purchases you make from our online store help us to recover financially from this tragic event.
So please, check out www.theblackseaonlinestore.com and pick up a shirt or two. It would be greatly appreciated. It will help speed up the process of our new line coming out. We have to redo a lot of the designs because they were all on our hard drive. Our street team database is gone as well as a lot of our contacts.
If you can’t afford anything, maybe just post a bulletin for us. We have a bulletin code on our Myspace in a textbox that you can copy and paste. http://www.myspace.com/blackseaapparel
Thanks so much in advance for your help! We think you will enjoy what we have to offer!
Written by † Jay
Posted on 23 May 2008 at 12:00 pm
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Two somewhat related news items of note…
Netscape, which basically is now Firefox with a different skin, is finally getting its techno-plug pulled by AOL:
While internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting to revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts have not been successful in gaining market share from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
Digi-economic Darwinism at work, this. I don’t know any designer/developer after 2000 that even bothered with coding for Netscape’s parameters (remember all those “IE recommended” disclaimers on splash pages?), so this is just closing up the moneyhole for AOL. Nothing truly consequential, but it’s nice to know this bridge can finally be burned.
Relatedly, the much more stable IE7 has recently gained some market share in the browser battle, finally surpassing the CSS-suckified IE6. You can check that link, but I’m not so sure it’s a permalink, so here’s a screenshot.

This is good news for developers, since IE6 has many compliance issues than need workarounds and cost many hours per project when coming up with the fixes. I’ve experienced this firsthand many times. Let’s hope this trend continues.
Written by † Jay
Posted on 26 October 2007 at 4:00 pm
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