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Technology Web

Light grey screen of mild achiness

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Jeff Schiller writes: It turns out, as Shelley has mentioned, that the best developer experience to work on XHTML is also (by far) Opera. Instead of Firefox’s “yellow screen of death” we’re greeted with Opera’s “light grey screen of mild achiness”. Instead of cryptic messages about unexpected tags, the element which […]

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Just Shelley

Body Changes

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. We were early to the Body Worlds show and spent time walking around the St. Louis Science Center. It is an impressive place with all sorts of gadgets and interactive displays. The kind of place you can go to as a family and everyone will have a good time. Yes, […]

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Writing

Kindled

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I can’t say enough about the new Kindle ebook reader. I just received mine last week, and have already loaded about 30 books, though I’ve only had to pay for four of them. I debated quite a bit about buying the Kindle. I wasn’t sure about a first generation product, and […]

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Media

Video Adventures: AppleTV

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I don’t have the spare income to indulge myself in all the new toys that come along. However, I considered the Sprint refund to be ‘found’ money, and used it to buy myself not one, but two new toys: a Kindle eReader, and an AppleTV. The AppleTV is a little […]

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Legal, Laws, and Regs

Arbitration update

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I need to write an update on arbitration and what’s happening with the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2007. In a way, I’d almost rather we wait on a vote until after we have a Democratic president, because anything that doesn’t support corporations over the people will be vetoed by President […]