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Just Shelley

Decisions Decisions

There is nothing more implacable than a decision waiting to be made. It can shake you out of sleep, pulling the covers off, forcing you out of bed and to your feet. It can hover around you during your waking hours, beating at you with tiny, subliminal fists of frustration. As time passes the decision […]

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Burningbird

New page New Start

My web sites are undergoing a redesign, including this new page, which will eventually feature a lot more than what you see at the moment. Until everything is up and running, you can access current material at the following focused sub-sites: MissouriGreen: all things Missouri and the South Bb’s RealTech: all things web, tech, semantic, […]

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HTML5 Specs W3C

The “WhatWG’s Mine is Mine” Design Principle kerfuffle

I’m not part of the HTML WG, but still follow along. Enough to see that one of the big ongoing debates lately is about the HTML WG’s Design Principles draft document. There are too many threads to link, but I would suggest the following as good places to start: Laura Carlson’s initial question about the […]

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HTML5 RDF Specs W3C

My HTML WG status

I posted about quitting the HTML WG on Twitter, but there’s only so much one can shove into 140 characters. Of course, I realize that most people will probably be uninterested in a longer writing on my reasons, but that’s the advantage of syndication feeds—you can see at a glance whether you want to read […]

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Technology

What’s shorter than 140 characters?

What can possibly top Twitter and its immediacy, as well as brevity of contact? I think we found out this week, with Google Wave. Tim O’Reilly describes it as what email would be like if invented today. My first reaction, and judging from other responses, is that it’s remarkably similar to Ray Ozzie’s Groove, before Groove […]