Er, "or what"...
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Am I ready, or what?
Friday, May 09, 2008
Entitled Opines?
Are you entitled to your opinion? Stephaney Delacey believes not, in a piece entitled* "You are not entitled to your opinion". (This post is the next installment in what might be a long-running series... Frankly, I'm only posting this so I get to use the above title... :-) Hey - at least there's no doubt about my motivations!)
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Nordic oil?
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Rating?
So it seems there's a "rating" feature on Blogger. You can select some random number of stars, and I get to see if people like my writing.
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Meaningless meandering through a Tuesday evening
A bit of a nothing post, really. I'm at a bit of a loose end, and I'm not particularly happy with one person, right now.
Electrical woes...
The electrician must have been drunk, or absent, when he wired this house. (Yeah, I know: sexist. How many women electricians have you met? I rest my case.) I've got this one area that seems to have power on the wrong cables - which is bad enough, but I can't figure out where the other cables go, anyway! One goes to the deck light, but that's all I know. Another heads into the bathroom, and seems to power that entire room. This is called "not good". And yet another heads to the ceiling, and who knows where.
Blogroll changes...
Don't ask, don't tell.
Death, grief and religion
Monday, May 05, 2008
I'm writing to ease the pain. This will be a difficult post. I can only suggest that you not read it.
I had to bury one of the cats, today
I had to bury one of the cats, this afternoon. Hammie Horatio was knocked down by a car.
Damn blogroll
I'm thinking of doing away with the thing, altogether!
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Stop using Ajax?
It's really quite interesting what you read on the web. Some of it is self-contradictory, some of it is awful, some of it ludicrous, (via Mojoey) and some of it good. Most of it should be ignored by me because I'm supposed to be doing something else entirely: home renovations.
1. I'm not saying Ajax is bad, I'm saying it's immatureI really don't get this. Campaigning for accessibility of websites is good. Decrying a technology for not addressing these needs from the get-go? BrotherCake goes on to say:
2. I'm not saying never use Ajax, I'm saying don't use it for the sake of it, and try to avoid it for now, instead sticking to accessible alternatives
When Ajax comes of age I'll be cheering as loudly as anyone. And I'll be working towards that goal and looking for solutions myself. But until that day comes, I intend to stick to proven, standards-based and accessible tools - not sketchy, proprietary and inaccessible toys.That's all well and good, I suppose. But shouldn't BrotherCake be advocating that developers include accessibility into their offerings? No technology is perfect from the get-go; saying it shouldn't be used because it's immature is likely to lead to it remaining immature. Instead of offering helpful suggestions, he simply says "don't use it". Which is a bit like sticking your finger in the dam and hoping the forces of progress will stay behind it.
Blog changes
While I'm in the last stages of preparation for my forthcoming sojourn, I decided that one thing I needed to do was clean up this blog. Not the language - there's no hope for that! - but what's over on the left.

