Archive for category: Web & infrastructure

More bon mots from Gawker    (2005.04.29)

Here’s to you, Noelle Hancock!

Shirkyism    (2005.04.24)

Where does the word ‘queer’ exist in your system of categorization?

Static newsfeed    (2005.04.18)

Request for help setting up a newsfeed for a manually-updated page

Text cycles    (2005.04.15)

What is the lifespan of the written word?

Best & worst    (2005.03.03)

The best of times and the worst of times at the W3C Technical Plenary

What happens when you meet Tim Berners-Lee?    (2005.02.28)

You contend with his excessive ‘humility’

Joe does Boston    (2005.02.23)

Joe indeed does Boston

Unicode characters that are actually more than one character    (2005.01.10)

In the immortal words of my esteemed colleague upon laying eyes on these, “That’s some weird-looking shit.” Note also that Spanish CH · ch and LL · ll are nowhere to be found. Unicode Components ‼ !! ⁇ ?? ⁈ ?! ⁉ !? ⁂ *** … … IJ   ij IJ   ij Ľ   ľ L’   l’ […]

Amazon cannot handle ligatures    (2004.12.19)

Amazon cannnot convert ct and st ligatures to plain text