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Ever since the HTML5 footer has been redefined I have changed the markup of http://www.miekd.com/

At the current stage, the validator has still not been updated to

match this spec change. I am aware of the giant draft/beta sticker on

the validator, but I would really love to have an up-to-date validator.

Encore un qui n'a rien compris à HTML 5, mwahahahaha.

This article investigates some other metaprograms which, perhaps, we don't really notice, and some alternative metaprogramming techniques which, perhaps, we should be aware of.

And if you can't code, and you can't get brilliant coders to like and respect you, you probably shouldn't be an entrepreneur. There's no shame in being aware of your own abilities and steering your career accordingly.

or how to make users aware that they cannot swipe their RFID card on a tag reader. Seen at EPFL, Lausanne.

know about Creative Commons’s use of RDFa to turn the Creative Commons Deed into a loosely coupled semantically aware app? And Yahoo’s implementation of RDFa in SearchMonkey? And Google’s Rich Snippets and the recently released Google Image Search with RDFa support so anyone can get their image metadata into Google Image Search? And the UK government who apparently can’t get enough of RDFa.

The paper shows case study of a multi-phase transformation taking data from a legacy ASCII-based interchange format, to XML based on a standardized vocabulary. The transformations illustrate the power of new features including regular expression handling, grouping, recursive functions, and schema-aware processing.

Back in the early 1980s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world around him – “an impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.” Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an important question: is my design good design?

As good design cannot be measured in a finite way he set about expressing the ten most important criteria for what he considered was good design. Subsequently they have become known as the ‘Ten commandments’.

Local git repository hosting with a sexy web interface and bonjour discovery. It's like your own little adhoc, network-aware github!

Distributed github in a way.

I feel a lot of anger and frustration in this list.

Some of the items seem fine to me. I would not have written them like this ;). I disagree strongly with the last one, not because of the rationale but the form. It’s an unproven affirmation. There will be cases where it will be indeed the case and some not. :)

About geolocation privacy, the issue has hit the fan already ;) Advertising the user’s location is one way to make aware the user (or users in developping countries) of a mobile device. Blocking access to the location is *not always* a solution either. Sometimes the solution will be in how long the data can be kept, sometimes the solution will be in how the data will be used.

Repeat after me 1000 times: It is not a privacy issue, but a lack (or very thin) opacity issue. The network makes the access to information very quick and easy. There’s no need or no use to block it. There is need to be able to slow down the stream at will.

Yahoo! Placemaker is a freely available geoparsing Web service. It helps developers make their applications location-aware by identifying places in unstructured and atomic content – feeds, web pages, news, status updates – and returning geographic metadata for geographic indexing and markup.

The severity with which we restrict the roving of our eyes seems rather to indicate that we are aware of the fact that our gaze vaguely recognizes the monsters on the margins and that we fear it might encounter some familiar beasts and strike up a conversation that would recall an old friendship and a forgotten common language.