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Burningbird Technology Weblogging

Drupal views and taxonomy pages – updated

Drupal provides a way to list out postings by taxonomy term, but not necessarily by vocabulary, directly. I’ve been using a module, vocabindex, to provide a web page that lists out the taxonomy terms for a vocabulary, but it doesn’t provide exactly what I’m looking for: a way to display posts by vocabulary, in addition […]

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SVG

SVG Planet

I noticed this thread on the SVG Interest Group email list about an official location for the SVG community page. Sounds like the group will be using the planetsvg.com site, though planet sites are typically aggregation sites. However, a “planet” can be many things, and the name is comprehensive. I still have planetsvg.org created to provide an SVG aggregator […]

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Graphics/CSS Photography

Gimp 2.6 alive and well on the Mac

GIMP 2.6 is now available on the Mac OS X, in addition to both Windows and Linux. On the Mac, you can install it via Macports, or you can use a pre-built version of the application, available for both Tiger and Leopard. I have the Macports version on my Leopard machine, the pre-built on my Tiger […]

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Technology

New Apple notebooks

Interesting reading about the new Apple notebooks. They do sound very attractive, but I think people were expecting a little more when it came to the “under $1,000” market. One dollar under is more marketing than real commitment to the changing times. You can’t even buy a gallon of gas, or milk, for under a buck […]

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XHTML/HTML

On the Myths and Realities of XHTML

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Tina Holmboe from the XHTML WG has written a concise overview of XHTML titled XHTML—Myths and Realities. She’s provided a nice overview of the markup, including the purpose behind the development of XHTML and the state of XHTML today. The only somewhat jarring note I found about the overview is it […]