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Critters

RIP Thinker

If you’ve seen my photo titled The Thinker you’ve seen our zoo’s favorite chimp, Cinder. Cinder suffered from a hereditary disease that caused her to lose her hair when she was young, though her health was good despite the loss. She’s a sweet tempered girl, and one of my favorite photo subjects, because her hairless state provides visual […]

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Specs

IE’s compatibility view

There’s been a lot of confusion about IE8’s compatibility view. To address the confusion, the IE Blog posted a note to clarify how compatibility view works. I think the site did a good job laying all the variations, though I’m not necessarily overjoyed about Microsoft’s decision to create a list of sites that are IE7 compatibility view, by […]

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Just Shelley

Ca wars

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. update Day 2 of car in the shop. I just called and the mechanic did start looking at the problem. I didn’t talk with him, but the office person. The mechanic did find a problem with the battery, but that’s not causing the problems. However, when he was starting to […]

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Semantics

A battle of Beliefs: RDF, Natural Language Processing, and the future of the web

Last Week in HTML has been practicing its wicked ways, and pulled a quote from a comment I made to a post at Sam Ruby’s Ian is wrong. Absolutely, completely, and dead wrong. … rather than Ian shouting out “Hurrah!”, he says we must have five different solutions to the five problems, because to do otherwise is […]

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Burningbird Technology

Porting from WordPress to Drupal

If you access my Frugal Algorithm site right now, you’ll see a closed for maintenance sign. I am in the process of porting the site from WordPress to Drupal. WordPress is an excellent application, but I really do find it incompatible with my interests. I miss my Views, and the way that Drupal implements extensibility. […]