Archive for January, 2005

Creative Commons Licensing

January 18th, 2005 (2005-01-18T00:13:22-0800) 2 Comments

As a small diversion from presentation preparation I want to ask a small question.

I’m weighing up two Creative Commons licences for applying to my blog entries but I’m stuck on the issue of Share Alike. I’ve got no problem with commercial use and all CC licences ensure that credit is given to me for my [...]

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Steve Jobs wants my bank balance.

January 11th, 2005 (2005-01-11T20:56:47-0800) 2 Comments

As a small aside from writing my forthcoming presentation on an accessible internet.

Today, Apple announced the Mac Mini. It’s an Apple Mac. But very, very small. It’s silver colour. You use your existing screen/keyboard and it costs little more than an iPod. And it’s a Mac. A full featured, all singing Mac.
The new Mac Mini
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It starts… post-SP2 Internet Explorer holes emerge

January 9th, 2005 (2005-01-09T11:45:10-0800)

See Virtuelvis for a well written report on the latest, hugely major security hole in Internet Explorer. Basically, it lets a website execute any command they like on your computer. Y’know, like “delete”.

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How to mark up images with captions

January 6th, 2005 (2005-01-06T23:55:27-0800)

In my previous post I included an image with a caption. I struck me that right now in HTML there is no proper way to mark-up captions for images.

Consider a table: this can contain a element. In the forthcoming XHTML 2 specification, caption will be extended for use with the element as well. [...]

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Reasons to hate Microsoft Word #132

January 6th, 2005 (2005-01-06T23:30:02-0800) 1 Comment

I will admit right away that I’m not an expert user of Microsoft Word, or any word processor. This is software that I will only ever use as a tool and right now I’m ready to throttle it.
Microsoft Word screenshot:
I’ve spent the evening writing up documents for my BCS log book – documenting my Year [...]

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