Ali Ebrahim on web standards, software developement, technology, politics and law.
I’m not blogging as much as I do usually. This is because finals are looming. A quick summary of my final papers schedule: Friday 28th – 12 pages Monday 31st – 15 pages Tuesday 1st – 6 pages Wednesday 2nd – n pages, where n is as yet undetermined (I will find out tomorrow). This … Continue reading “infrequent blogging”
I’m not blogging as much as I do usually. This is because finals are looming. A quick summary of my final papers schedule:
Friday 28th – 12 pages
Monday 31st – 15 pages
Tuesday 1st – 6 pages
Wednesday 2nd – n pages, where n is as yet undetermined (I will find out tomorrow).
This is all in addition to the 33 pages I submitted last Friday, and the 8 pages this last Monday. So yeah, things are looking pretty tight for me.
Why are Americans so sensitive? I mean seriously, it’s like sometimes a huge chunk of the nation has the collective maturity of a three year old. You just push the wrong button and everybody starts crying. People here really need thicker skin. You guys have it good compared to mostly everyone else, and yet you … Continue reading “american hand-holding”
Why are Americans so sensitive? I mean seriously, it’s like sometimes a huge chunk of the nation has the collective maturity of a three year old. You just push the wrong button and everybody starts crying. People here really need thicker skin. You guys have it good compared to mostly everyone else, and yet you don’t miss any oppotunities to make yourselves out to be the biggest victims in the world.
The level of self-censorship in the American media is astoundingly high. People were worried that it would happen in Hong Kong after the handover to China (it didn’t), but over here, the media are the government’s lap dogs. Do news outlets have copies of the additional abuse photos that have not been released to tbe public? It’s inconceiveable that they don’t. But they’re not showing them, because Rumsfeld wouldn’t want that. The American public doesn’t want to see that. Objective reporting just isn’t a concept that ever caught on here.
I’m going to write a bit more on Rumsfeld later today.
My Dad is in town, and I went with him to the NRA Show that’s going on here right now at McCormick Place. It was pretty interesting, and we met some good people there. It’s running until Tuesday, and I’m probably going to go with him again tomorrow and listen to the keynote speech by … Continue reading “went to the NRA show today”
My Dad is in town, and I went with him to the NRA Show that’s going on here right now at McCormick Place. It was pretty interesting, and we met some good people there. It’s running until Tuesday, and I’m probably going to go with him again tomorrow and listen to the keynote speech by Madeline Albright. Should be a good time.
It’s done.
It’s done.
…you right click somewhere in your MS Word document, and the mouse action triggers the page to scroll in an unexpected manner, and your first reflex is to think: “I should probably file a bug on this.”
…you right click somewhere in your MS Word document, and the mouse action triggers the page to scroll in an unexpected manner, and your first reflex is to think: “I should probably file a bug on this.”
Am working frantically to finish up my BA Paper which is due today at 4:00pm. Just adding the last few touches, but it stiil needs some proofing work, and some editing. This is going to be a late night for me. I’ll probably reward myself by sleeping in late and skipping my one 9:30am class. … Continue reading “frantic working”
Am working frantically to finish up my BA Paper which is due today at 4:00pm. Just adding the last few touches, but it stiil needs some proofing work, and some editing. This is going to be a late night for me. I’ll probably reward myself by sleeping in late and skipping my one 9:30am class.
In case anyone’s wondering, I’m writing my BA Paper on whether or not the United Nations can effectively protect the interests of small nations. The topic is very interesting, and I can’t possibly do it justice within the page limit that I have. But right now, I’m glad I have the page limit. Means I don’t have to write as much. 🙂
Not quite. This really has to be seen to be believed. My oh my, what will they think of next?
Not quite. This really has to be seen to be believed. My oh my, what will they think of next?
No caption required. Note that the picture is not doctored. You can find it in its original context here.
No caption required. Note that the picture is not doctored. You can find it in its original context here.
My fiancee’s Gmail account is showing 1000000MB (1TB) of space available now. Mine is still showing 1000MB (1GB). Weird. Apparently these aren’t isolated cases, as a lot of people on Orkut are posting that they’re showing 1000000MB of available space too, and many others posting that they’re still showing 1000MB. I wonder if this is … Continue reading “gmail weirdness”
My fiancee’s Gmail account is showing 1000000MB (1TB) of space available now. Mine is still showing 1000MB (1GB). Weird. Apparently these aren’t isolated cases, as a lot of people on Orkut are posting that they’re showing 1000000MB of available space too, and many others posting that they’re still showing 1000MB. I wonder if this is just a temporary glitch in the Gmail system, or Google is trying something new.
As far as I can tell, there is no relationship between the way that the invite was received (from Google employee or via other Gmail user) and whether or not the account shows 1000000MB of available space. Account usage also doesn’t appear to be a factor. As far as I can tell, it’s completely random.
I contacted Blogger about some validation issues I’m having with their Blogger-generated code. They acknowledged the problem, but said that working on it was a low-priority task. I’m reproducing the email exchange below: Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 18:08:06 -0700 From: “Blogger Support” To: “Ali Ebrahim (3181470, )” Subject: Re: XHTML 1.0 is broken on … Continue reading “blogger & xhtml 1.0 strict validation”
I contacted Blogger about some validation issues I’m having with their Blogger-generated code. They acknowledged the problem, but said that working on it was a low-priority task. I’m reproducing the email exchange below:
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 18:08:06 -0700
From: “Blogger Support”
To: “Ali Ebrahim (3181470, )”
Subject: Re: XHTML 1.0 is broken on Individual Post Pages
User-Agent: Neotonic Trakken/2.10.3
Hi there,
Thanks for letting us know about this validation issue. Unless they
actually break functionality somewhere in Blogger or are causing true
accessibility issues, they will likely be treated as low-priority.
-Blogger Support
Original Message Follows:
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From: “Ali Ebrahim (3181470, )”
Subject: XHTML 1.0 is broken on Individual Post Pages
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 11:43:28 -0700
Hi,
The individual post pages contain invalid XHTML 1.0 code, stopping them from validating as valid XHTML 1.0 Strict. This is very easy to fix, as the problems are not complicated.
There are 3 (minor) problems that I see:
a) Many of the links have ampersands in them, but they are not properly escapced as XHTML requires. When you have an ampersand anywhere on an XHTML page as part of the page text or as part of an href attribute it should be sent as ‘&’, not as ‘&’.
b) The 1×1 pixel delete post image does not have an alt attribute. This is required by XHTML 1.0 Strict.
c) Users are allowed to enter invalid XHTML tags in their comments. For example, capital letters are not valid in tags in XHTML, but users are allowed to enter <I>foo</I> in their comments. If they do this, the tags should automatically be converted to lowercase to this: <i>foo</i>.
I know that Blogger has made a big push towards being XHTML 1.0 Compliant, and if you fix these small minor errors, then your pages will validate fully everywhere, as long as users don’t break them themselves.
Thanks,
Ali Ebrahim
