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Diversity

Kicking was the operative word

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I hesitated to mention the “Whose Butt should we be kicking” panel at SxSW until I saw more detail on the session. Thankfully, Dru Blood provided a fairly detailed liveblogging of the event. It was a mistake for SxSW to keep this session once the original panel broke up. There was a […]

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Weather

The heat rolled in from Texas

The weather has been extraordinarily erratic: hot, humid, and stormy followed by icy, dry calm, then back to hot, then cold, then back, until I’m exhausted. Seriously, if I wanted to live life alternating between stormy heat and cold calm, I’d date a guy with commitment issues. We spent most of the weekend under a […]

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Stuff

Best Practices Scenarios

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There are just some things that don’t belong in a Best Practices Manual… One investigator to another, as they slowly walk through the wreckage of a 747–bits of fuselage and bodies lying about: “Well the Best Practices Manual suggested that the pilot use the landing gear rather than attempt to […]

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Weblogging

To serve webloggers

My favorite lunatic wants us to know he’s better looking than Steve Rubel, but doesn’t make as much money as Hugh MacLeod. You may not make as much money, Alan, but I bet it’s raining right now in London. The Head Lemur is writing about the new Technorati Popular Favorites List. I guess the new popular weblogger […]

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Specs XHTML/HTML

Ambiguous Specifications do not make Good Technology

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There is a belief that if it weren’t for the fact that the earliest versions of HTML were unstructured–full of proprietary idiosyncrasies and ill-formed markup indulged by too-loose browsers–the web wouldn’t have grown as fast as it did. Somehow, we’ve equated growth with bad and imprecise specifications rather than the […]