Archive for July, 2004

Read this, it’s true.

July 28th, 2004 (2004-07-28T22:19:55+0000) 2 Comments

My lovely, long-time geek-enduring girlfriend, Jo has updated her Blog with some cutting comments about a section of the Firefox community. And she’s right about it all. Not just because she has an automatic “I’m right” veto, but because it’s actually all true.

It struck just how silly blocking out IE to promote a browser based [...]

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I like shiny things (with high price tags)

July 28th, 2004 (2004-07-28T21:22:34+0000)

The side affect of my new job is that I now have less debt. In a month or two, I will back in the black for the first time in about 14 months. It’s a really nice feeling, tarnished only by my unquenchable thirst to spend it all.

While people at work have suggested giving up [...]

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In case you’d contemplated taking Terrorism seriously…

July 27th, 2004 (2004-07-27T21:07:35+0000)

... I highly recommend you Prepare for an Emergency!.

Inspired by a remarkably similar campaign, PFE offers useful advice on fire: Reduce fire hazards in your home. Children are the worst fire hazards; consider giving them up for adoption.; Bombs: If you are trapped in debris: Swear profusely. Try not to die.; Emergencies: Look, it’s [...]

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Firefox 1.0 Creeping Closer

July 27th, 2004 (2004-07-27T20:20:39+0000) 2 Comments

Ben Goodger has released details of Mozilla Firefox not a beta release prior to 1.0. Firefox 0.10 should be out mid-August and see the bug list shrinking dramatically. It’s promising news, having personally been a keen follower of the project for probably going a year now (and longer, if you include Mozilla’s Suite product as [...]

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Semantic Markup

July 27th, 2004 (2004-07-27T13:40:21+0000) 4 Comments

It appears that in my eagerness to jump on XHTML, I’d completely overlooked the meaning of mark-up.

It’s a well ignored fact that HTML tags have meaning, rather than just being presentational aids. This is especially true of XML based mark-up, which by definition exists to describe anything.

Matthew Thomas puts this straight effectively, and offers a [...]

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