Yearly Archives: 2005

I have decided I don't like MT

On March 13th around 5:55 in the morning, I had just finished installing MovableType. It’s actually a well written piece of software, at least by my naive technician’s eyes, but, I simply don’t like the way the URLs are implemented. … Continue reading

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Well, so long GreyMatter

It’s been fun. It’s been nearly 4 years since I installed Greymatter and then extensively changed it to meet my needs. But now that I see that the Fish was able to install version 3.1 of MovableType and we share … Continue reading

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The Bakafish Joins the 21st Century

With a small amount of help from me, Baka has been working on a layout-table-free, semantic and pure CSS facelift for his site. He had just sent his penultimate draft to me last night. I looked it over and it … Continue reading

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MSN takes the plunge into standards

As I’ve mentioned repeatedly, back in the late Nineties I was the webmaster for Microsoft’s accessibility pages. Back in those days IE for Windows was really the only game in town for CSS support but, I’d read about the WaSP, … Continue reading

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For Future Web Design Reference

My news feeds are getting out of hand. I now have more wonderful stuff to read than I have I have time. So in a effort to follow these things up later, when the Web hits a dry patch, I … Continue reading

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Is this some horror unknown?

So let’s see if I can add a new entry with the XStandard editor! Yes, I can. Later, upon entry revision, I see that if I add something to the extended area but later erase it, XStandard retains a nonbreaking … Continue reading

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day

"Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can … Continue reading

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