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Web Designers: Do you think I have super vision?

You are probably under 30 years of age. Your eyes are still good. Some of use do not have good eyesight. Please do not make the type so freaking small. (Luckily, most browsers can deal with this problem quite easily. I just increase the font size. Of course that usually breaks your layout. sigh…)

Web Developers: Why must you take the lazy approach?

Some things are just not that hard. At least that’s how it seems to me, which either means I’m a pretty amazing developer, or you just plain suck. Or somewhere in between. Either way, try not to suck so much…

I guess what I’m really saying is that I need to beat some designers and developers with a cluestick. Repeatedly.

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Open-Source Donations

I just donated money to the following open-source projects: Scuttle, Adium, XAMPP, and WordPress…

See? Ads aren’t all bad…

(Oh don’t worry, I didn’t give it all away, I also renewed my Flickr pro account.)

Hopefully, I’ll be able to donate at least a little bit to various open-source projects that I like every month or so. Is your blog making money from advertising? If so, would you consider doing the same?

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Creative Commons is…

There is much handwringing over Creative Commons. Is it broken? What is commercial use? Opinions differ, discussion goes on…

Meanwhile, over at Flickr, there is talk of Schmaps trying to use CC-licensed photos.

My gosh, it’s like Movable License all over again! What constitutes “commercial use” anyway? Google ads? Amazon affiliate links? PayPal donate buttons?

The sad thing is, unless the parties involved can agree, it will probably take a court of law to determine such things, and if that is the case, then it’s really simple: The side with the most money/best lawyers wins.

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Snowboarding #1

I first saw snowboarding about 20 years ago. I was skiing, I think it was at Little Switzerland, and saw a few guys with these crazy boards instead of skis. Not that I was a stranger to boards, as I had been riding one with wheels on it for many years prior to that, but the only snowboarding I had ever attempted was going down our sledding hill with my old Madrid longboard, sans trucks… It didn’t work very well.

Time to remedy that!

Maybe it was the Olympics, or snowboard cross, or, I dunno, but the time was right. We headed out to the hill. Er, slope.

That’s right, the little slope + rented equipment + not knowing what we were doing = fun + pain. Or something like that. It was a blast. It was also frustrating. The two words that best describe trying to snowboard are fun and frustrating. Is frunstrating a word?

The next day we were in a lot of pain. Not really due to wipe outs (of which there were many) but more from just using all those muscles you don’t use too much while sitting at a desk. It’s two days later and I’m still sore. The sad part is that depending on the conditions and schedules, we may not get to go again until November. Bummer…

(Of course my goal is to someday be as good as this old guy.)

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Hooray for microformats!

I first looked into microformats long ago, and while it looked interesting, I really didn’t do much about it. That’s fixed now…

I’ve added an hCard to the contact page, and the geotagged data on each post is now marked up using the appropriate geo stuff.

It was pretty simple, and I really should have jumped in sooner. Anyway, I think a savvy corporate web designer could easily sneak this stuff into places under the radar, since it’s all under the hood anyway. A little class declaration and bango! You got semantic markup…