Recovered from the Wayback Machine. You can tell when the gas prices are lower: the stations are filled with big SUVs and trucks. And today we find out that Missouri has the lowest gas prices in the country. For now, that is. I used some of the lower gas prices to fuel a trip to […]
Year: 2008
After all these years, we have finally reached the point where we’ve separated page organization from presentation, and now we’re about to embark on the same mistakes again, but this time with presentation and semantics. I’ve been following the issues associated with the vocabindex Drupal module, including one where the person submitting the bug stated the […]
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The nobility of specification work
Hank Williams responded to the recent ECMAScript Harmony announcement with a post titled, Ru Roh! Adobe Screwed By EcmaScript Standards Agreement. In it, he writes: Adobe provided support to the standards body in helping to define the standard, and most importantly, in creating an open source virtual machine called Tamarin that would run EcmaScript 4.0. But […]
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Grumbles in Kindletown
I have written before about my satisfaction with my Kindle, and even hope to write a couple of book reviews on new discoveries. However, not all is well in Kindletown at the moment, and reason is prices for Kindle editions. I’ve been wanting the second book in Mercedes Lackey’s Obsidian trilogy, but Amazon only offered […]
“If I had asked my customers what they wanted,” the great car making pioneer Henry Ford once said, “they would have said a faster horse.” Kevin Gamble points to Twitter’s recent decision to cut outgoing SMS for UK clients: On Wednesday, we announced that Twitter has suspended outgoing SMS to our UK number. The blue in the chart […]