BurningbirdSummary: At the end of my considerations, I couldn’t see the differences between Clinton and Obama. All I can see is the goodness in both. The hope each brings to this election. How desperately we need them, both of them. Whatever each has done in that past that I don’t like is not as important […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I noticed increased rumblings in Planet Intertwingly against anonymous commenters. I maintain a short lease on anyone commenting who doesn’t provide a real email address or who I don’t know, primarily because I don’t know if the person is putting an innocuous comment in to bypass ‘must have approved comment’ […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I tried out one of the applications for Google’s new Social Graph API. The application looks for XFN or a FOAF file connected to your weblog to see who you connect to, and who connects to you. I don’t have XFN or a FOAF file. I did have one once, though, under my old URL, weblog.burningbird.net, so […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. If you only read the weblog in your reader, you’re missing out on the newest tweaks. A little more color, a few more excuses to use SVG. I love that SVG. SVG and ImageMagick…um…um…good. SVG, ImageMagick, and RDF–there has to be something in there waiting to be discovered. If you […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. During the recent light hearted discussions revolving around IE8 and its faithful companion, Wonder Tag, a second topic thread broke out about XHTML. As is typical whenever XHTML is brought up, the talk circles around to the draconian error handling or yellow screen of death when encountering even a small, harmless seeming discrepancy in a page’s […]