Validation Pitfalls
After a couple of hours effort last night my archive templates now all validate as either XHTML 1.0 strict or XHTML 1.1. That’s not to say all the content validates, however. The main … Read more
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Site Validates as XHTML!
In what turned out to be a relatively painless exercise, I made this site validate against the XHTML 1.0 strict specification. Though I started out with over 500 errors, many of them were … Read more
Leap Year Fractals
Fracture is a fractal screensaver for Mac OS X that creates some of the most fantastic, richly detailed fractal images I have ever seen. I don’t normally configure a screensaver; preferring instead to … Read more
Thunderbird Fix Posted
I had another tip published at the MacOSXhints site. After CarbonCopyCloning my internal harddisk to an external firewire drive I noticed problems with my mail client, Firebird. It would sort of start, but … Read more
PHP CSS Style Switcher
Last night I decided to take another look at the idea of providing a way for visitors to this site to be able to change the color scheme. I had the “grey” look … Read more
We Don’t Support That
Punters, givers and formatters. Tech support staff earn these colorful nicknames based on their approach to meeting an “average call time” goal of 12 minutes. On the other hand, if your goal is … Read more
eTech04 Summary
I attended the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (eTech04) in San Diego the week of February 9th. It was a fantastic, energetic and thought provoking conference, covering a wide variety of topics that I’m … Read more