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Microsoft is claiming that a working version of IE8 is showing the smiley, and has passed the Acid2 test. Even if Microsoft is lying, this means that at the very least, someone there is using a browser that can pass! [that, or they stole the screenshot from some place!]

As you might have noticed, I’ve been a bit pre-occupied recently. And likely will be so in the future. So a design for this site has once again been placed on the back burner. I am good for a tweak-ing, however. Looks fine in Firefox 2 for mac/pc. Opera, has a small problem, I think […]

Yes, if you happen to see some weird things going on, I am tweaking the CSS on the site.  Live.  See me work, or become annoyed and return when I’m finished. 🙂

Washington Post – Obituaries Friday, December 14, 2007; Page B07 Jean Edward Welker – NASA Physicist Jean Edward Welker, 72, who spent 50 years as a physicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, died Dec. 5 of heart disease at Washington Hospital Center. He lived in Laurel. Mr. Welker was a specialist in […]

In an effort to keep my mind occupied elsewhere, here are a couple of distractions to share. The Magical Minimalism of Microformat – The New York Times tipping their hat to Microformats Internet Explorer 8 – Please don’t be lying, please don’t be lying, please don’t be lying… Email Standards Project – Please turn out […]

When I came across High Performance Web Sites; Essential Knowledge for Frontend Engineers on Amazon, I was excited. I’ve been actively using the Yslow plugin for Firebug, and was interested in finding out more. At the day job I can’t implement each of the 14 rules myself, however the plugin is useful none-the-less. It’s terrific […]

Some part of me, deep down, will not let me post photos without cracking open Photoshop first. I don’t know why I feel so strongly about it, but my gut won’t let me avoid it. So of course, it’s ages before I feel alright showing anyone what I took. Be that as it may, I’ve […]

So I return from East Hampton.  800 miles to empty out the freezer (and then de-ice it with only a metal spatula).   Alright, so I’ve had some better trips.  At least the Amagansett Farmer’s Market was good.  And the surf looked good (if not near-frozen). I won’t go into details, but my weekend consisted of: […]

Leaving in about an hour to drive up to the summer house in New York.  Yes, I know it’s fall, and it will be cold (40’s) but I have to shut off the fridge.  Really.  Anyway, I hope that I can relax a tiny bit for the time I am there. C ya maryland!

Indeed, it is time for a small party… my last 2 to 3 months of work has gone live! http://www.pubmed.gov Go take a look and see what’s wrong with your foot. 🙂 Also, make sure to check out my favorite PubMed article. I’ll give you the id… just search for that. It’s: 17328369. Unfortunately, it […]

Google just saved me the effort.  Thanks Goog! I’ll have to take a look and see if I can make something real outta this…

After nearly 3 months sitting on my bookshelf, I got around to reading the Microformats book. I probably don’t need to mention that they’ve been pretty high on the “buzz” list for a while now. That aside, I like the idea, and believe they are worth using. With this post, I hope to give a […]

Well, that was kinda fun.  I was trying to create a post, and when after I edited a <pre>, something I did killed WordPress within Firefox on my MacBook.  So I went inside and tried it on my frankenmac, and Firefox died there… three times.  Odd.  So I turned on my trusty old PC, and it crashed […]

So I had a problem a while back where I thought Firefox for Mac was picking up some left-over or un-overridden size styles, while the other browsers were not. It turns out that it wasn’t actually my problem. While all of the other browsers that I tested… for both Windows and Mac display the default […]

I know the title isn’t English… but I’m a little out of it after what I just watched. Not that I really need to say this, but between writing two blog posts, doing some XSLT exercises, playing with the cat, and a few other random things, I only ended up looking up at Snakes on […]