BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I have been following James Fallows’ coverage of the Olympics with interest, specifically because he has been focused on the air pollution that plagues Beijing. It is unfathomable that a city would put its people at risk by having air quality so bad that it has to take such drastic steps as […]
This week I’m updating my will, which hasn’t been updated since I was married (I’m now divorced). Updating one’s will is never a fun task, but it is essential if you don’t want to leave a mess behind after you die. More importantly, you may not always want everything you own go to Nearest Next […]
I downloaded the first alpha of Shiretoko, or Firefox 3.1, and I’m delighted to see the text-shadow I have attached to my site name showing up in a Firefox browser. Not just text-shadow, Mozilla has also added JavaScript query selectors to this release, which means that we can query for all elements of a given class […]
I put the finishing touches to the draft for my current book, and now it begins the technical review process. I don’t want to say it’s my last book, but there is no other on the horizon, as I return to the world of software development and consulting. First, though, I need to spend time upgrading […]
In reply to the IEBlog web post that is asking people to apply for the right to submit a bug: Why, on earth, when other browser developers provide open and easy to use bug systems, would Microsoft limit itself in this way? I have a bug in Webkit, five minutes can help me determine if someone had already […]