Shelley makes the assertion that we are never going to bother with our Twitter past. When I read that, I initially agreed with her: Twitter is a fast-moving medium for short messages whose value fade as time marches on. So in general I won't need to go back and retrieve them. Then today happened and I realized that it's not because we won't want to - it's because it's going to become impossible. Read the rest of this entry ...

§533 · April 21, 2009 · Software, Technology, Web · 3 comments · Tags:


Mr. Schepers put together a proposal entitled Referenced Parameter Variables in SVG. This would allow declarative access to parameters from a parent document. Read the rest of this entry ...

§531 · April 14, 2009 · Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Pluggable SVG · Tags:


Do not adjust your sets, today is CSS Naked Day. I decided to steal Sam Ruby's "naked trucker silhouette" this year. Sam has privately let me know that I cheat by using inline style, but sometimes I want to float my clipart left and sometimes I want to float it right. I guess I should turn those into classes. Will do so for next year. Oh well, Sam cheats too.

§530 · April 9, 2009 · Software, Technology, Web · 3 comments · Tags: ,


Some day all browsers will be able to view this entry.

§528 · April 1, 2009 · Life · 6 comments · Tags: