BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I don’t buy *plastic CDs anymore. Digital downloads is the way to go: better for the environment, and better for my wallet. Online sites such as iTunes and Amazon’s MP3 get most of the attention when it comes to online music buying, but for the frugal music lover, there are […]
If the W3C were a TV show, it would be Survivor, without a doubt. With the announcement of the less than graceful retirement of XHTML 2.0, the charitable would say that W3C is consolidating resources. The less charitable would say that in a face-to-face with the WhatWG and the browsers, the W3C blinked; or was […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Good times for science fiction fans. This week marks the return of the popular series, Eureka, on the newly named SyFy channel. No, not “see-fee”, “Sci Fi”. This week also marks the debut of the new series, Warehouse 13. If you don’t have the SyFy channel on cable, the pilot for […]
I don’t have time at the moment to write anything in-depth on the recent decision of the W3C to let the charter for the XHTML2 working group expire. Instead, I’m going to list several interesting and/or relevant writings others have done, as both bookmarking for a future story, and for your edification. The W3C FAQ on […]
One of the benefits to manually going through old weblog postings and other articles—to see which to keep and which to 410—is re-reading old work. When you haven’t looked at the material in several years, reading your old stuff is like reading something someone else wrote. It’s surprising what you can learn about yourself when […]