May 2008

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• 05.12.08
  Legislation to Eschew Obfuscation   Professional (0)

  If you’ve ever been confused by any document put out by the U.S. Federal Government, then you should be happy to know that the House of Representatives recently passed the Plain Language in Government Communications Act of 2008. Of course, why an Act had to be drafted for something so… logical… is beyond me, but [...]

• 05.07.08
  A Good Mixtape Website, Like Breaking Up, is Hard to Do   Personal (1)

  John Cusack, as Rob Gordon in “High Fidelity,” came up with some rules for putting together a proper mixtape. Just as well, since you are using someone else’s work to express your own feelings. Such is the case with coming up with a web application that facilitates the creation and distribution of your own mixtape [...]

• 05.05.08
  Qualities of Wonderful Markup   Professional (0)

  Everyone has their own philosophy of how markup should be written, and I am no exception. Over time, I have strived to make sure that what I write can be described as follows:

  Browser Agnostic
  Semantically Correct
  Forward Thinking
  Well Documented
  Self Contained

  Clearly, these are ideal qualities that always seem to be challenged on every project, mostly around the existence [...]

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