While I was reading Jonathon’s CSS Oath of Allegiance it hit me quite forcefully that I’m surrounded by web standards people. I don’t know if any and all are members of WSP (Web Standard’s Project), but I am seeing a zeal like adherance to standards that causes me some qualms if I dare to step my little toe out […]
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Metatags
Protect your Meta Tags! Read this interesting story at Bloggerheads, about a certain individual’s proclivity in lifting other web sites’ meta tags, wholesale. My first reaction is why? Can’t one put enough words together to form a coherent meta description without resorting to theft? Truly bizarre. How would you feel about someone taking your meta tags? I […]
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Weblogging Feb 6 2002
I am in a very fey mood tonight. (In the background, running feet, slamming doors, the sound of people crashing through windows, screams of terror) What? -earlier- Well didn’t we throw the orange kitty into the little flame today, hmmm? I’ve been picking on some of my favorite webloggers this week. I don’t know why […]
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What’s fun
Yesterday in a posting, I planted the seeds of analogy and today we’ll watch them spring forth as fully bloomed metaphors. Mike throws another thread into the void with a discussion about why we blog. The posting is somewhat based on Dvorak’s article, but it also takes a closer look at what we mean when we say […]
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Google Programming Contest
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve had a chance to look at the source and the data files for the Google Programming contest. In the last several years, I’ve spent so much of my time tweaking sites for business use — better use of the database, better security, better architectural design, better use of Internet technologies, […]