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Entries Tagged as 'Geek'

When Did Standards Compliance Become Only About Validation?

May 31st, 2006 · 14 Comments

How has the message of the web standards community somehow been boiled down into a concentrate of your website must only validate to be standards compliant? Is this the result of a horrible game of web telephone? Sadly, this reduced definition of web standards makes it quite easy for someone to dismiss the […]

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Tags: Geek · Open Source · (X)HTML/CSS

2006 CSS Reboot All-Stars

May 4th, 2006 · 8 Comments

Impatient as I am, I’m not going to wait for the other coaches to weigh in; I’m just going to leap ahead and name Jeff Croft the MVP of the All-Star team. I love this design. He’s not a flashy Kobe Bryant, but more of a solid, dependable, thinking-person’s Tony Parker […]

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Tags: Geek

I’m Feeling Antisocial

March 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

Enough with the social bookmarking. Really. I don’t digg it. I don’t reddit. I won’t seed it. I don’t think it’s del.icio.us. I’m a jerk.

 

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Tags: Geek

Gone Skiing

March 9th, 2006 · 2 Comments

It’s been indicated that I haven’t posted in a while. Yes, it’s true. Projects are stagnating. Bloglines has long ago quit showing any indication of updates here or at I (heart) baking. Why? It’s ski season. Weekends that once served as primary “catch up” time for my websites and […]

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Tags: Website

NicoleSwan.com Meta News

February 21st, 2006 · 3 Comments

My recent jump into the world of Bloglines-ing has had at least one good effect — I now actually check out my own feeds. I’ve never paid much attention to them other than obediently listing feed links. Well, did you know that previously I wasn’t publishing the full article entries in my feeds? […]

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Tags: Website

iSwitched

February 8th, 2006 · 6 Comments

Okay, I didn’t so much switch as I bought an iBook to keep my PC company. And now I’m trying to figure out this whole Mac OS thing. So far, I’ve managed to change the system preferences and pick up 8 nearby wireless networks I didn’t even know existed. I’m excited about […]

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Tags: Geek

Temporary Hiatus

January 31st, 2006 · No Comments

As I am suffering through a short term lapse of internet connection at home, posting will be sparse for an undetermined amount of time. I think I will pull through, but I’m feeling quite disconnected. Obviously, I am working on correcting this problem sooner rather than later.

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Tags: Website