Archive for January, 2010
Introductory resources for learning about Linked Data (the “semantic web”) and RDFa
Including linked data in a machine-readable (as well as a human-readable) format blows open the possibilities of what we can do with it.
21 Day Challenge
I’m joining my girlfriend in doing a “21 Day Challenge” – a challenge arranged by an online friend of hers in which people set themselves three goals which they pursue over 21 days. Apparently, it takes 21 days for us humans to form a habit. We both have our forms printed and filled out, which [...]
Hacking ‘paragraph spacing’ with CSS (despite IE)
I feel that now is a good time to finally start using more of the CSS2 and CSS3 goodness in my web page styling [...], so I’ll be testing these projects further with a view to settling on a solution.
Advising clients to ditch Internet Explorer
Now seemed like a good time to encourage clients to start using something other than Internet Explorer, so I’ve written the following email and will send it out to my web clients later today. Hello all I’m emailing my clients to recommend that they switch from Microsoft Internet Explorer to a more secure web browser [...]
The electric toothbrush – an example of graceful degradation
Even though it had either developed a fault or lost access to its power source, it degraded gracefully, allowing me to continue using it for its intended purpose.
Some of what I will do in 2010
A holiday period is finishing and I’m aware that several things “need” doing in my life, but I also have interests I want to make sure I pursue.