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SVG Technology Writing

Snowing

I’ve not been the best at keeping up with my writing at my various sites. I have been writing, though. I have a two-part article up at A List Apart: Using SVG for Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part 1 and Part 2. Though Microsoft still hasn’t implemented SVG in IE, with the company’s new membership in the […]

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Just Shelley

Just a cat

It was the shoe clawing that left me uncertain. She was getting old, over 18 years old. Her arthritis was getting worse, but she could still make it upstairs: slowly and painfully, sometimes having to pull herself up with her front legs rather than push from behind. She had good appetite, always wanting to have […]

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RDF W3C Writing

It’s a beautiful fall and I’m stuck inside

he fall has been nice, but I haven’t been able to take advantage of the decent weather and pretty scenery. I have a book deadline next week for my new book for O’Reilly, The JavaScript Cookbook. I can’t do much anyway, because my car is doing very odd things, and I no longer trust it […]

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Crickets: Comments, HTML5, and Drupal 7

I did turn the comments back on for the post, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer: RDFa and HTML5’s Microdata. Well, until the post gets overrun by spam, or until the crickets chirping drive me batty, whichever happens first. My idea of comments on this site, and redirecting from the others didn’t work. It left people confused, and the connection […]

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Just Shelley

Review of Flip Ultra Camera

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A couple of months ago, Amazon invited me to participate in its Vine program, where customers are given books, gadgets, food, and other items, in exchange for reviews (either positive or negative). In the month that I participated, I received a couple of books, a nice laptop bag, and the […]