Archive for category: Web standards

Don’t expect to be taken seriously by the ‘Toronto Star’    (2015.09.02)

When I tried to keep the Toronto Star from blowing it with its “tablet app,” Michael Cooke (open Michael Cooke’s policard), Faadi Yaccoub (open Faadi Yaccoub’s policard), Jon Filson (open Jon Filson’s policard), and Dave Darnell (open David Darnell’s policard) all treated me like a problem

The second-last man to take me seriously    (2015.08.28)

That would be Mr. SCOTT BOMS, who left Toronto for Facebook. He got out just in time

Numbers, like his expertise, start at 0 for Jeer Heet    (2014.11.08)

“Twitter essays” are a failure, but let’s not tell Jeet Heer that

A National AIDS Treatment Research Agenda (ACT UP, 1989)    (2014.06.18)

I restored ACT UP’s National AIDS Treatment Research Agenda to a better PDF and valid HTML

‘United in Anger’    (2014.04.07)

United in Anger can finally be viewed online. But its progenitor, the ACT UP Oral History Project, needs a stem-to-stern rewrite, and for that I’m asking for help

Teaching editors structured markup    (2013.07.07)

Jeff Eaton wrote a CMS that forces the use of structured markup

WaSP shitcans self    (2013.03.05)

I may now have the only Weblog in existence with valid HTML at all times

MetaStupid    (2013.01.01)

A year-long hiatus from MetaFilter, where I am user 250 (1999), due to the entrenched stupidity of its intelligent and sophisticated owner and developer

List of participants in 2012 Toronto Pride Parade    (2012.06.04)

Since Pride Toronto is too computer-illiterate to present an alphabetized list in HTML I did it for them: Alphabetical list of organizations intending to participate in the 2012 Toronto Pride parade