Blog of Wade Making Connexions

Posts from December 2007

Negative News Media

Found in Walden, via The Te of Piglet, via Allison.
I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the [...]


Living

“Living is a form of not being sure,
not knowing what next or how.
The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
The artist never entirely knows, We guess.
We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.” — Agnes de Mile”
Found in this fantastic mashup of Alan Watts’s God’s [...]


My Mystical Access Point

Having free wifi in my hotel room is amazing. I’ve got my sexy little macbook, and have high power production tools at my fingers. I’m connected exactly the same as I would be at home. No one I speak to can tell my location, based on my level of access. But my connection’s been ‘funny’.
Initially [...]


Microsoft, W3C Compliance, Browser Access - the Battles of the Interweb

The below rant over on slashdot caught my attention.
Yeah, except that it’s not Firefox: it’s writing to THE W3C STANDARD which Firefox and almost every other browser that exists (including Opera and khtml based browsers such as Konqueror and Safari) just happen to render correctly (with a couple of caveats).
IE, on the other hand, [...]


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