Archive for June, 2007

WCAG 2.0: The Next Draft

Monday, June 4, 2007 8:26 20 Comments

As the more astute of you will have noticed, I have already commented on the latest draft of WCAG 2.0 having written a review of WCAG 2.0 for Accessites just over a week ago. Why not pop over there to read it if you haven’t already? If you can’t be bothered to read the review [...]

This was posted under category: Accessibility, Standards

Religious Intolerance: Abortion

Sunday, June 3, 2007 18:00 3 Comments

I have no time for bigots. Actually, that’s not true. I’ll normally try and make sufficient time to demonstrate that they are self-serving, intolerant people with double standards to try and suit themselves. So here goes. Some time ago, I wrote a piece called the atheist bigots where I took several swings at atheists who [...]

This was posted under category: Faith & Forteana

Blogging For Bloggers: Learn The Basics

Sunday, June 3, 2007 9:19 4 Comments

It seems to me that there are a surprising proportion of bloggers who simply don’t understand how blogging works, how the internet works, or indeed that information published on the internet is actuallly publicly available. Firstly, we had the scaremongering headlines from the BBC and from Out-Law suggesting that more than a third of UK [...]

This was posted under category: Blogging

I Can’t Help Find Madeleine, So Stop Asking

Saturday, June 2, 2007 22:51 50 Comments

Several weeks ago, a couple went on holiday and left their three small children in their apartment while they went out for a meal. While they were out, one of their children — called Madeleine — was abducted. I’m not going to beat up the parents for leaving their children alone in the apartment: I’m [...]

This was posted under category: Life

33: A Meme

Saturday, June 2, 2007 0:28 5 Comments

Or, if it’s easier, just call it 3 cubed. The rules are simple. There are 9 questions (32), each of which has 3 answers, to give a total of 27, or 33. The whole point is that the questions are somewhere between eclectic, banal and downright bizarre, so that you can answer completely truthfully without [...]

This was posted under category: Blogging, Life, Memes