Big news in the blogosphere - the IEBlog finally divulged some real details about Internet Explorer 8: An internal build of IE8 supports the Acid2 Test, meaning a great deal of HTML and CSS-related quirks have been mopped up. Read the rest of this entry ...

§416 · December 19, 2007 · Microsoft, Software, Technology, Web · 2 comments · Tags: ,


I've been following Shelley Powers' blog for about half a year now, ever since I discovered her on some feed searches for SVG. Today she posts some post-mortem thoughts on her latest book about Web Graphics. In addition, she makes a bold statement: "I will no longer compensate for limited or broken specification support in browsers after January 1, 2010" Read the rest of this entry ...

§414 · December 2, 2007 · Microsoft, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 2 comments ·


Just like last year, December 1st is supposed to be Chicago's first snowstorm. So I've turned on the snow in my blog header. Now you can keep warm by hovering around your CPU.

I was looking at the comments from last year's entry and it's good to see that we've now seen definite progress from Safari's side on the whole SVG front. Still no word from IE though 🙁

§412 · December 1, 2007 · Safari, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 2 comments ·


A short article about removing items from a standard C++ container. Read the rest of this entry ...

§411 · November 30, 2007 · C++, Software, Technology, Tips · 4 comments ·


I recently got ahold of a nice MacBook Pro and I'm using it as my primary Windows box at work. It's nice and snappy and I like it, but I'm having trouble getting used to the keyboard, let alone the one-button mousepad. I thought I'd use this post to collapse several google searches into one location. I'll likely add to this list as I learn more tricks. Read the rest of this entry ...

§410 · November 30, 2007 · Microsoft, Questions, Software, Technology, Tips, Windows · 8 comments · Tags: