WTF. Microsoft actually listened to feedback. Internet Explorer 8 will interpret web content in its "best standards" mode by default. Here's the press release. Thank you!

Good way to garner some praise just before MIX08. Now we wait with baited breath for later this week, when news from MIX08 about IE8's support of other standards (beyond CSS2's Acid) will percolate up into the blogosphere.

§436 · March 3, 2008 · Microsoft, Software, Technology, Web · 1 comment · Tags: ,


I've been following the Tesla Motors story for about a year and a half now. When my wife had some points to burn on her credit card rewards program, she asked me if I wanted a DVD of Who Killed the Electric Car?. I said yes. We watched it tonight. It made me sad, frustrated, angry - but I'm still glad I watched it. Has anyone had a successful electrical conversion of their hybrid car?

§435 · February 29, 2008 · Life, Movies, Technology · Comments Off on Essential Viewing · Tags: ,


Since my feeds are now customized as part of my theme, I thought I'd take a look at some of the interesting things you can do. I knew that WordPress supports a variety of feeds at different levels (main feed, main comments feed, per-entry feed, per-category feed, etc).

What I was wondering was if there was a way to link each post in the feed to the comments feed of that story. This would allow a good feed reader to let people easily subscribe from the main feed to the conversation feed of a particular story where they have left a comment. Turns out it was fairly straightforward. Read the rest of this entry ...

§434 · February 27, 2008 · Software, Technology, Web, XML · 1 comment · Tags: ,


Sam had a good thought over at Erik's blog. In the past, I've mostly been on the side of referenced SVG for clip art - but he raises a good point. Read the rest of this entry ...

§433 · February 27, 2008 · Software, SVG, Technology, Web, XML · Comments Off on Inline vs. Referenced SVG: Best of Both Worlds? · Tags: ,


I think XHTMLate should be pronounced "stimulate". Anyway, here's a list of WordPress bugs that I think are important for XHTML: Read the rest of this entry ...

§432 · February 25, 2008 · Software, Technology, Web, XML · Comments Off on Stimulating WordPress · Tags: , ,