Last Monday, NBC's Heroes returned from its many-week hiatus. The story kept moving and there were lots of cool things that happened or were revealed this week. Spoiler Warnings apply if you haven't seen it yet. Read the rest of this entry ...

§364 · April 27, 2007 · Entertainment, Heroes, Life, Television · Comments Off on Heroes Returns, Paradoxes Remain ·


I have a bunch of different Subversion repositories where I store documents. Occasionally I'll place some unversioned files in these directories while working on something. Today I needed to take a snapshot of the contents of my hard drive but I didn't want to keep all the hidden .svn directories. Here's what worked for me. Read the rest of this entry ...

§367 · April 26, 2007 · Linux, Software, Technology, Tips · 4 comments ·


I've admired Sam Ruby's desire to use inline SVG for his blog - I think his clip art adds visual appeal to his site. I wish I had Sam's artistic sensibilities/patience (or that slipping into a scotch-induced trance would help). But artistic ability aside, I have been struggling with inline SVG as a concept since then. I thought I'd outline the advantages and disadvantages to inline SVG as I see them. Read the rest of this entry ...

§366 · April 25, 2007 · Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Inline vs. Referenced SVG ·


Thanks to Mike, I now have Webkit SVG results to show at my SVG Support page. Current (April 2007) Webkit builds score a 55%, which is roughly comparable to Firefox 3 nightlies. Firefox 3 adds support for some Filter Effects, while Webkit currently has better Text support. For a first release, this will be fantastic - congratulations to the Webkit team!

§363 · April 24, 2007 · Apple, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Webkit SVG Results In · Tags: , ,


I published my results of running ten different SVG implementations through the SVG Test Suite. Read the rest of this entry ...

§362 · April 21, 2007 · Adobe, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 197 comments · Tags: