Archive for June 2006

Fixing the latest errors    (2006.06.12)

Righting the latest wrongs from David Berlind. Will he never learn?

Rainbow Smart    (2006.06.10)

Just don’t park ’er nose to curb.

Call for response from Quality Assurance    (2006.06.10)

Call for response to WCAG 2 from W3C Quality Assurance Working Group

Even academics can’t understand it    (2006.06.10)

An academic paper reviewing WCAG 2 on the basis of communication theory finds almost nothing to write home about, as it were

Citroën Cluster Phenomenon    (2006.06.09)

My esteemed colleague and I were driving along King (for we drive and, yes, are as shatterers of worlds) and I found myself blurting out loud “Why is there a Citroën SM and why is there a Citroën DS?” In fact, there were seven Citroëns all in one place, including 2CVs and some late-model variety uncomfortably resembling a Lada Samara.

My eyes widened and I giggled and clapped my flat-outstretched hands like a schoolgirl. I made us stop the car. I took pictures until I ran out of juice. I talked to the SM owner. (“Whenever you show people a Citroën SM, they think The Longest Yard: ‘Don’t you take my Maserati!’ Except it isn’t a Maserati. It’s a Citroën; the engine is a Maserati.”) I watched various Eurotrash in too-tight and/or ruffled shirts and overlarge shades clutch their twee twine-handled shopping bags as they regarded these alien creatures.

Our philosophical question de la journée: If we know these things hike themselves up to drive away on their hydraulic suspensions, why do they have to hunch back down again once parked? The French showing off or something?

Et maintenant, chez les francophones    (2006.06.08)

Fisking the French-language fiskers of my WCAG 2 article

This just in: I run a ‘movement’    (2006.06.08)

Fisking Lachlan Hunt’s fisking of my fisking of WCAG 2

The very unluckiest city bus    (2006.06.06)

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