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Burningbird Specs

IE8, XHTML, and what am I going to do with my site?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I thought it interesting and even odd how few people have remarked on the fact that Ray Ozzie began the opening keynote of a conference focused specifically at developers by talking about ads. My source for things geek, Planet Intertwingly, has had very few entries devoted to IE8. I imagine people […]

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Copyright Web Writing

Something for nothing

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I like Andrew Orlowski, though he offered me a writing job once and then yanked it. I don’t always agree with him, and I don’t always agree with how he phrases some of his material, but he typically has a good point. Take the recent Nine Inch Nails album release. Several […]

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Burningbird

Feed problems

The biggest mistake I ever made was to install WordPress at the top level. The second, was to use “smart” URLs. My site was restricted due to bandwidth overlimit this morning, something that shouldn’t have happened. When I checked my stats, one site, proxyit.com, was hammering my bandwidth. Checking the recent visitors list, this domain […]

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Technology Writing

Tasks, transcripts, and semantics

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m spending the rest of the week creating plug-ins that will XHTMLate WordPress. I’m not sure how far I can get with plug-ins, but the end result could be both interesting and useful. I still feel that XHTMLating WordPress is at least partially philosophy, as much as it is code. […]

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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, […]