BurningbirdI’ve always been partial to Amazon, but as an author I have to say that the company’s data systems suck. For instance, if you search on my name, “Shelley Powers”, you’ll find several of my books, such as Essential Blogging, Unix Power Tools 3rd edition, and so on. However, you’ll also find me on a […]
Thanks to Sean McGrath I found out about this discussion thread over at the Tag Soup discussion forum. It starts off with Tim Berners-Lee basically asserting that a URI represents a web page, or at least a physical resource: We know. Your “resource” is a vague thing which can be a robot or a web page. That vagueness makes […]
Second Update:I didn’t choose the Hubble article as a test case for my conversion because it’s particularly good writing. I wrote this years ago and I know it needs severe editing and updating. I picked it as an example primarily because it fit all the test cases for XHTML compliance. Thanks to Jay Allen’s […]
My back and leg have progressively been getting better and the weather warmed up so that I could get out for a small, light walk today. Being outdoors, even for just a little while, going for a walk again, these all work for me better than all the drugs in the world. There’s this pile […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve been determined not to write anything on any of Halley’s posts about Alpha Males, other than a link here or there for fun. Today’s posting made hash of that, though. There’s so much about this posting that really describes ‘everyman’ not just that mythical man beast, Alpha Man. And in many […]