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July 2002

The Yin and the Yang

By the way, check out Mark Pilgrim’s Dive into Accessibility to learn various simple methods to make your site accessible. Another screed I posted at Nanodot some months back.

Transcending the Shallowness

This is another little mini-essay that I’ve culled from my posts at Nanodot.

The Vanguard of Cultural Evolution

A week or so ago, I wrote an interesting reply to a post at Nanodot about the persistence of the geek factor throughout human history and prehistory. I liked it so much I’ve decided to reproduce and amplify it here so as to produce some of my own content.

XHTML looks terrible in WebTV

All the sites I’ve built look terrible in WebTV. At least I know it’s WebTV’s fault. If everything I make validates as strict XHTML and CSS, then it’s not my fault. Today is a pretty slow day. Yesterday I just sent out a mail to my friends and co-workers to do a little informal usability [...]

Baby Screams, Fuel Cells, Paranoia and the Semantic Web

Over the last few weeks I read: About Sonic weapons based on backmastered baby screams. An interesting article critical of the semantic web concept. I, being a markup purist, am a true believer in the semantic web idea. Another interesting article about what open source is and what it means. I come across, speaking of [...]