Not Invented Here
I’ve been accused more than once of “reinventing the wheel.” Let me assure you that that’s meant to be a stinging insult among programmers, where reuse is the key to efficiency and laziness (both...
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Wow… keep meaning to write in this thing, but I’m not yet in the habit. I seem to have reached the maximum number of things I can think about at any one time. Anyway, here’s the short recap of what has...
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Last year, I noticed that my blog had lost all its styling… I was busy with other things at the time, preparing for my presentation at WWW2008 (and my subsequent vacation in China), juggling cats, and...
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Site Unseen
So, I don’t really pay much attention to my blog, or my site stats, or any of that… probably not nearly as much as I should, given how effective a medium blogs are at promoting ideas in the Web...
View ArticleEtymusicology
This week on Pop-Linguistics, we will be looking at words derived from song lyrics. wang-chung Pronunciation: \ˈwäŋ-chəŋ \ Etymology: Part of song lyric, from name of performing musical band Wang...
View ArticleSlow News Day
My last post was slashdotted. Not servers-melting slashdotted, but unusual-volume-of-comments slashdotted. I posted it late on a Saturday night, so I guess they had no other news fit to print. It was...
View ArticleShort Stuff
I’ve been doing a lot of website stuff this week. Here’s some highlights: W3C Working Group Sites A few weeks ago, after long neglect, I finally updated the SVG WG page with a template that better...
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Favatars
What’s a favatar? It’s a favicon! It’s an avatar! It’s a portmanteau! Well, really, a favatar is a profile picture hosted at the URL a commenter provides, with the filename favatar.png. I made it up!...
View ArticleSmack versus Facts
Offered without comment. Post about HTML5 logo and overblown “controversy” surrounding it: 1,078 hits on the first day. Post about details on W3C touch events spec, including a roadmap and future...
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