Twitter API is really busy lately.

That causes delays and performance problems when you try fetching tweets with Twitter API via JSON or other methods.

For that matter, my sidebar tweets widget uses jQuery preload to prevent my whole site to hang until the widget gets a response from Twitter API. But then again there are times that widget gets stuck with the preload phase.

The good news is Yahoo has a great tool that pulls the tweets of a user and swipes @usernames and @comments and returns a clean feed with a fast response.

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There’re so many times I find myself struggling with IE6 and 7 issues and some other misbehaviors when working on the css of my designs.

In order to shorten the time I waste on the css and to modify the elements a bit easier, I defined some common base selectors to use and they exist almost on every css file of my previous projects and this site’s css as well.

Doing that, I reset the default values for common elements and selectors, and then I restyle and organize those elements individually, wherever they are needed.
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