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Slower Traffic Keep Right!

Thursday, March 29, 2007

One of the most frustrating aspects of driving in the US is the utter lack of understanding and attention paid to the simple rule: “Slower traffic keep right.”
It’s not a difficult rule to follow and many drivers in many other countries seem to live quite successfully by this rule. The left lane is not your [...]

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Pains with Highrise

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

I recently signed up for a Highrise account because I already use Backpack and Basecamp on a daily basis and I find them quite useful.
It’s worth noting that Highrise is brand new from 37signals, so there’s some expectation of “not quite polished” going in. I manually added two contacts to Highrise a few days ago [...]

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Joined the HTML Working Group

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

I’ve joined the HTML Working Group at the W3C as an Invited Expert. I contributed to the WHAT WG and its Web Applications 1.0 (AKA “HTML 5”) spec, so hopefully I’ll be able to help out with the W3C’s renewed effort to update the HTML spec.
Going in, my fears lie mostly in bureaucracy or FUD [...]

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Trying Feeds with Feedburner

Monday, March 12, 2007

I’ve set up my site feed to redirect to FeedBurner, so excuse any feed wonkiness if you please. We’ll see if it’s worth it.
That didn’t last long. FeedBurner apparently forgot how to get updates from my site, so fell apart. I wasn’t too hopeful anyway — I like to keep things in house and under [...]

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Why Nudity Is Good

Sunday, March 11, 2007

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!Henry David Thoreau

There is a dreadful anxiety surrounding nudity in some modern countries, most notably the United States. [...]

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Web Developers Must Know JavaScript

Thursday, March 8, 2007

…if you call yourself a “web developer” you have absolutely no excuse for not knowing JavaScript. And if you don’t know JavaScript, you have absolutely no right to call yourself a “web developer”. [sic]James Bennett
I came across a post from James Bennett written last year that is absolutely brilliant. His points are right on the [...]

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