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Just Shelley

X-Objects Introduction

Copy found on Wayback Machine. Since Dynamic HTML was first introduced in 1997, I’ve always provided code that allows DHTML to be used with the two most popular browsers: Netscape’s Navigator and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. To make cross-browser DHTML easier to work with, I created a set of cross-browser objects, which I’ve used for all […]

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51,000+ DotCom Layoffs…

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Being one of those that are part of a steeply growing curve, a layed off dot comer, I found the article Silicon Valley Workers Head Home in the Australian IT to be very interesting. According to a source quoted in the article, there have been over 51,564 people laid off from DotComs…to date. I bucked […]

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New City, New Servers

The Burning Bird Corporation is now open for business in beautiful San Francisco. What can I say folks, but I love this city! In addition, I’ve aggregated all of my web sites on to one server. Hopefully the move will go smoothly, but if you find pages missing or out of synch, most likely they didn’t survive […]

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Bits of prose

A long time ago in a place far, far away, and long before I started writing articles and books on computer technology, I used to write poems. Well, I called them poems. Recently, I found a folder of poems and decided to put my three favorite online. I’m aware that this could result in a […]

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New York, New York

It isn’t Fall without trees changing color, birds flying south for the Winter, and being in New York to speak at the Internet World conference — this time as part of the Webmaster Forum. However, this time, I stayed in New York for a few days. What an adventure. New York Cabbies The cab that […]