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HTML5 Specs

Opera’s TPAC Minutes

The annual TPAC meeting is when standards people involved with W3C specifications get together to see if they can more easily hammer out issue resolutions face to face, rather than in endless email discussions. I suppose we can liken the event to finally meeting that really hot person you connected up with on Facebook—it’s a […]

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Burningbird

End of year shenanigans

As I detail in RealTech, not only am I upgrading to Drupal 7, I’m also moving to a new host. I figured it was time to move to a server where I have more control over the environment. I’m also doing other work, which may leave my site in a tangled mess at times. If you […]

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Burningbird Technology Weblogging

Another year, another web server

Drupal 7 is right around the corner, and my efforts to see how it would work on my existing server made me decide it is time to move to another hosting company. I need more control over my own space, and what is, or is not, installed. After discussions with the inestimable Laura Scott (@lauras), my go-to […]

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Technology

That’s just not right

Earlier, I found a PR release from the AVMA (American Veterinarian Medical Association) undermining Missouri’s Proposition B in favor of its “model bill”. In an associated video, the AVMA’s CEO, Dr. DeHaven, states that Proposition B only sets limits on the number of dogs that can be kept, when in actuality, Proposition B does more (DeHaven’s video)—much […]

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Critters Political

Election, undone

So much for the importance of the vote. So much for the will of the people. Other stories have popped up about Missouri state representatives deciding to undo Proposition B in the state legislature. Not a lot of representatives, and none from the urban areas: Proposition B Faces Possible Repeal Lawmaker already has list of […]