On trying to test IE7
They make it difficult, donchaknow.
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Unification of Disparate Services: ‘profile.xml’
On trying to join up the internet: Every person’s website includes a file called �profile.xml� that describes public profiles and membership of other standalone webservices. It’s a very vague sketchy idea and I want to know if it’s worth pursuing. Is it really useful? Does it go some way to helping us towards Identity 2.0? Are there glaring architectural flaws that I’ve just missed?
Regarding Denmark
Pfffffffffft.
Self Branding
Or: An accident with type
Gmail Chat
Google integrates chat logging into Gmail. Produces more shite mark-up.
Birthday & Carson Summit
This is gonna be pretty short but I should say that I had a great time at the Carson Web Apps Summit. It’s always nice to meet up with other geeks and indulge, combining that with my birthday seems to have been a good mix. I should eat at Wagamana more often, too.
Small Downtime
I’ve finally got a compelling reason to move my domain over to the Dreamhost package that I’ve been paying for since October. I need to set up some SVN source control for my university project (Oak).
Flickr Testing: Some Coverart I made
- Joshuaburn January 2006 (Print version)
- Originally uploaded by Ben Ward
Knocking out cover art is one of my small loves in life.
Not sure if I’ll manage a consistent theme throughout the year, but maybe I’ll try. Currently the theme is ‘photos that I think look really cool’. There’s no relation between the picture and the music or anything so clever as that.
The bottle of Whisky was photographed by me over Christmas, and touched up in Fireworks to account for the terrible focus. It was given to a grandparent as a present, and is comes from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s 26 Malts series. This particular label was written by Chris Miller and designed by Susanna Freedman.
hAtom 0.1 Microformat published
I like Microformats. The potential for doing Really Useful Stuff with the internet is immense: Embedding events and contact information into regular (X)HTML pages, representing relationships and now, describing feeds.