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Fog
There is a freaky fog rolling into the harbour at the moment. It has swallowed up the entire far side of the harbour and it is getting denser.
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Accessibility with Domino web sites
If you’ve checked the source-code lately you’ll see that it is now actually properly HTML compliant and accessible. I found this great article at Ferdy Christant’s excellent site. It explains a simple method for creating pages that allow you to control the HTML instead of Domino – so that there’s a full doc-type, no deprecated…
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IBM and the Linux desktop
Found at the Web Standards Project, the tale of the well intentioned IBM Linux desktop challenge.
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Changes
If you’re nerdy enough to check the source code of this site you will have noticed some changes in the last few days. This warrants proper explanation, and I’ll provide that over the next few days. In the meantime, if you notice any ‘funny stuff’ on the site, let me know .
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Amazon job notice, circa 1994
Found via kottke, a post from Jeff Bezos looking for developers for Amazon …!!
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HTML element madness
After a quick brush up on my html element attributes by having a look at the W3 Schools html element list, I made a few discoveries. There are several areas that I need to revisit, mostly related to forms. I also found an alternative to W3 Schools html reference at www.htmlref.com. Some things I learnt:…
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New Zealand – archipelago or continent?
While trying to remember how the hell to spell archipelago I came across an article that states: though one usually thinks of New Zealand as an island or archipelago, it is one of the world’s smallest continents, defined biogeographically as a land mass within which birds and mammals can achieve completed speciation A quick Google…
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Wellington Earthquakes
Wellington has been hit by a number of small earthquakes over the last few days. This morning there was a 5.5 which got me out of bed (at 8am I might add). I listened to a seismologist on the radio talking about the quake. He was asked about a theory that we cling to in…
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blockquote and cite
Noticed a comment from Henrick on 456bereastreet.com about using the “cite” attribute in the blockquote element. Sounds like a good idea to me. Don’t think I’d ever heard of it before – so I guess I should really have a look through the html element list and brush up on my attributes….