Site Validates as XHTML!
In what turned out to be a relatively painless exercise, I made this site validate against the XHTML 1.0 strict specification. Though I started out with over 500 errors, many of them were … Read more
Blogging
PHP CSS Style Switcher
Last night I decided to take another look at the idea of providing a way for visitors to this site to be able to change the color scheme. I had the “grey” look … Read more
eTech04 Backchannel
One aspect of the eTech04 conference that I found intriguing was the back channel IRC (chat) experience. Always on, almost always active, #etech and #joiito provided an alternate view of the conference; at … Read more
Honor of the Salesman
is a blog covering the dark side of retail, viewed with a wry perspective from the “other” side of the counter.
Blogs, Wikis and RSS (oh my!)
What a wonderfully stimulating day today at eTech04! After the keynotes came the first in a series of sessions that touched on a number of topics that I’m heavily involved with these days. … Read more
eDem Highlights
Based on a quick search for “digital democracy” over at feedster, it’s clear that this conference is going to be extremely well documented. I’m going to link to some of the entries that … Read more
Digital Democracy Teach-In
The Digital Democracy Teach-In, an adjunct session to this week’s Emerging Technology conference, is off to a great start. Joe Trippi, former Dean campaign manager, was the first speaker, and provided both a … Read more
Posting Problem Resolved
AMK4 responded to the previous entry with some thoughts on how I might work around the fact that the weathernws plugin doesn’t work well with ecto and NetNewsWire (the blog isn’t completely and … Read more
Posting Problem Clarified
Well, I figured out why NetNewsWire and ecto both had difficulties when posting to this blog. Turns out that when one of my plugins, the one powering the hourly weather updates, was installed, … Read more
Ecto Update
I remembered that ecto displayed the entire response from my server (compared to NNW’s “error 500”) and so decided to post using ecto. Hopefully I can figure out something from the error message, … Read more