BurningbirdThe pain was sudden and intense, a band across my chest, taking away my breath. I had been bent over, lifting several books from a lower shelf, and the pain hit as soon as I straightened up. I dropped the books and fell back into my chair, clutching my hand to my chest, just like […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. O’Reilly Radar has a post with graphics related to the recent study of people using older, insecure browsers. At a glance we can easily see that most of the problem occurs with Internet Explorer, most likely IE6. If Wikipedia is correct, IE6 was released on August 27, 2001. Come this August 27th that makes this […]
I put in an application to be considered as an invited expert by the W3C in response to Jeff Schiller’s work to encourage participation in the SVG Interest Group. I do like SVG and am interested in promoting SVG, but the whole process of having to submit an application to be considered to be an invited […]
Thanks to Laura and Michelle in comments, I’ve downloaded and installed the Durpal comments RSS module. I don’t have header links yet, but you can access the comments feed at http://realtech.burningbird.net/crss. I also created a global comments syndication feed. I really prefer Atom, but there is no Atom comments feed for Drupal. In addition, the existing Atom feed needs tweaking, so […]
I have good news and bad news about my Powerbook. The bad news is that the mother board is DOA. The good news is that I’m still covered under the extended AppleCare warranty. For some reason, I had thought the warranty was expired, but the guy at the Apple store looked up the machine and […]