old stuff from December, 2007

the next web standards

Monday, 17 December 2007 11:16 am by noel
posted in web development

under development are html 5 and xhtml v2. html 5 is being pushed by browser vendors (do we actually call them browser vendors when most of them don’t even sell their browsers?) and xhtml v2 is being supported by w3c. these two are not official recommendations yet but it looks like they lead into the [...]

blog reorg

Friday, 14 December 2007 8:35 am by noel
posted in internet, wordpress

i think i need to reorganize/consolidate my blogs. i have a couple more someplace else and it may be time to put them all in one place for easier maintenance.
i’m getting tired of posting to three places (or is it four?). and more is not necessarily better. its just more.

w00t

Wednesday, 12 December 2007 11:12 pm by noel
posted in stuff

… is the merriam-webster online word of the year 2007
w00t!

yahoo permalinks plug-in

Tuesday, 11 December 2007 9:03 am by noel
posted in software, wordpress

the stock customizable permalink plug-in that yahoo! webhosting provides with their wordpress installation is not compatible with wordpress 2.3.x. It apparently stems from the new way 2.3.x handles canonical urls. a trouble ticket has been submitted to yahoo! by a wp user and y! employee and  mark has a post about it and a plug-in [...]