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Writing

Breaking eggs

I have an egg. A perfect egg. I am lost in admiration of my perfect egg. But I am hungry. I must break the egg. I break the egg. It is awful. Slimy, wet, with a bulbous yellow eye. And I am sad. But look! I have an omelet! A perfect omelet! I am lost […]

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Just Shelley RDF

And with all that

And with all the unpleasantness this weekend, including a comment breaking my XHTML, captured for posterity by the playful, puckish, Anne, I find that I have misunderstood one key element of the RDFa specification, and have embarrassed myself greatly. Why is every time I touch anything to do with the W3C or associated mailing lists, I […]

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Just Shelley

Hire me and other activity

So, what am I doing when I’m not giving the HTML WG a bad time? I’ve been putting together a Hire-me page, as well as a page for my books. Both are linked in a new sidebar item, along with links to my Amazon Wishlist, and to donate to help defray the costs of my […]

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Just Shelley

Hire me!

I’ve been in the computer industry for several years, and have two degrees: a BS in Computer Science, and a BA in industrial psychology. In the past, I’ve worked with some very well known companies, including Boeing, Sierra Geophysics, Stanford University, Harvard University, Standard Insurance Company, John Hancock, Intel, and Nike. I’ve even paid my […]

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Burningbird

Web stats

As of this first week in January, 2009, the web statistics at my five main sites read as follows (only values greater than or equal to two percent are listed): Burningbird (main page) Browser stats Browser and version (if provided) Percentage MSIE 5.5 4.3% MSIE 6.0 6.8% MSIE 7.0 14.6% Firefox 3.0.5 16% NetWireNews 8.3% […]