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Reading a Douglas’s post about underlining text in Illustrator, I noticed how his own comments are highlighted.

Douglas uses Movable Type, so I went to WordPress forums and quickly found this article.

These are the easy steps:

Edit your comments template in WordPress and before starting the loop:

<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) { ?>

include the following:

<?php
$isByAuthor = false;
if($comment->comment_author_email == 'YOUR-EMAIL') {
$isByAuthor = true;
}
?>

then, before starting the comment text, add:

<?php if($isByAuthor ) { echo '<div class="authorcomment">';} ?>

and before closing the list element (li), include:

<?php if($isByAuthor ) { echo '</div>';} ?>

You should create a class called authorcomment in your CSS.

That’s it!

A big hug and all the happiness in the world to Jeffrey Zeldman’s family, their baby was born on 28 September 2004, one day after Beatriz birthday and one before mine.

It would be very hard for me to miss Ava Marie Zeldman’s birthdays

A post from Slashdot, actually a post and millions of comments (usual stuff at /.), let me know about the funds raising organized by Spread Firefox for publishing a full page ad in the New York Times announcing the release of Firefox 1.0.

It appears that Spread Firefox got in just 17 hours what they intended in 10 days, thanks to /. and, of course, the love of so many people to Firefox.

You can still donate, get your name printed on the ad, and make the web a better place!

UK based Salmonbones has started an interesting SEO contest: The site that ranks first in Google on January 1, 2005 for the keyword Seraphim Proudleduck will earn £1000 (that is about US$ 1800).

It’s a very good opportunity to test some SEO techniques, ethic techniques of course, and see if two and a half months are enough for getting the job done.

I’ve created the Seraphim Proudleduck blog specially for this contest, there I will discuss about my, hopefully, progress page rank in Google, and will tell you the story of a duck, the Seraphim Proudleduck.

If you want to help me in the contest just link to the Seraphim Proudleduck blog using this url:

http://www.my-seraphim-proudleduck.info/index.php

If you want something fancier you can use the following button:

with this code:

<img src="http://www.my-seraphim-proudleduck.info/duckbutton.gif" 
alt="Seraphim Proudleduck" width="88" height="20" />

pointing to that same url.

See you around!

Right, everybody is inviting, or being invited, to Gmail.

The initial rush of “please invite me or I’ll die!” has, apparently, vanished.

Don’t you believe me? Take a look at this comic strip.

Yep, I have to admit it: I admire the guys at Google.

They launched a product in an arena dominated by the big boys, in a time when nobody thought we needed another search engine. They had a plan which they followed patiently and now they are clearly the more important search engine in the world.

This year they launched their very expected IPO, Gmail, the new web based email service by invitation only is leaving Yahoo and Hotmail behind, and Adwords profits are, obviously, going up.

Orkut, their pet social network project is also working by invitation, by the way: lots of brazilians at Orkut.

There have been lots of rumours about a Gecko based Google browser too, but nothing confirmed, or negated at least, for now.

What else could Google do?

Invade the desktop, that’s what they just did with their new Google Desktop, which allows searching your local hard disk documents with the familiar Google interface.

Google Desktop is a very small download, under 500Kb, and very easy to install. Once you get it running it will start crawling your disk whenever your computer is idle.

To search you only need a visit to www.google.com, as usual, and you will see a new Desktop link, just click it and you will get results from your PC.

I have tried some other local search applications before, in fact I was googling around to get the url of the last one I used, its name started with “k” but I forgot it completely.

I really like what Google has done by integrating the local results with their familiar site.

At this time Google Desktop only works with Windows, but I hope soon there will be Mac and Linux versions available.

Hats off to Sergey Brin and Larry Page, you have demonstrated that it’s all about results and built a very strong, the strongest I think, brand.

Hi, after reviewing the site of the excellent UK based Computer Arts Magazine, I found Zinio.

Zinio sells subscriptions to many magazines in digital format using DRM (Digital Rights Management) technology from Adobe and offers great prices on their magazines, most of them cost less than their paperback editions.

You will find magazines such as eWeek, PC Magazine, Cosmogirl, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Business 2.0, and many more.

There are many free samples so that you can try the technology.

I recommend a big screen, I’ve got a 17″ screen and feel is not enough to experience the magazines.

The quality of the digital issues is amazing, you get a very magazine-sque feeling, specially when turning the pages. The subscription coupons are great, with the only difference they don’t fall.

Zinio magazines can also be downloaded to Tablet PC, unfortunately I don’t have one but would like to know if some of you have tried it.

One last thing: If you go to Zinio home page, you will be able to fill a survey and win yearly subscriptions to PC Magazine, Electronic Gaming Monthly and Computer Gaming World. At least those were the subscriptions I got for free, it could change depending on your answers to the survey I guess.

Let me know what you think about Zinio!