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I’m sorry, has your brain broken?

“I’m sorry, has your brain broken?”:https://www.guardian.co.uk/life/opinion/story/0,12981,1133207,00.html Self-taught scientist Steve Grand built his own intelligent android. Now he’s seeking intelligent life among the newsreaders, television producers and yoghurt advertisers who label things as ‘science’

Strange CSS bug in Mozilla Firefox

Just upgraded to Firefox and discovered that all my hyperlinks were jumping to the right when I hovered over them… Replacing the original style declaration of A:hover { border-bottom: 1px dashed #555; } with A:hover { color: #999999; text-decoration: none;} has worked around it… Anyone know how to report bugs to Mozilla?

Exploring Footers

“Exploring Footers”:https://www.alistapart.com/articles/footers/ This article explores the ways you can position footers using web standards, although the same techniques may be used to vertically position other elements.

Pattern Synchronicity

Flemming is “looking for patterns of collaboration”:https://tinyurl.com/25ecz – so I pointed him to “Blue Oxen’s”:https://www.blueoxen.org/ “CollabWiki(CollaborationCollaboratory) “:https://collab.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?HomePage At about the same time, I was starting to wonder if patterns might be useful as part of understanding “CoachingAsKnowledgeCreation”:https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=CoachingAsKnowledgeCreation. I think I might get to a set of patterns around Coaching – but first (I think) I need to apply some “ActionResearch”:https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=ActionResearch principles to my practice in order to surface my underlying theory.

The Valley of Vision

Walking around Samuel Palmer‘s “Valley of Vision”, between Otford (TQ532594) and Eynsford (TQ535649) in Kent. Again, inspired by Time Out Book of Country Walks, this time a modified version of Walk 23 (left out the dip down into Shoreham for lunch)… I think I’m starting to notice the positive effect of these walks – certainly felt much stronger towards the end of this walk than in earlier weeks – and was rewarded with a fabulous sunset…

SimpleCode

“SimpleCode”:https://www.simplebits.com/archives/2004/02/05/simplecode.html Perl script to turn ordinary markup into entity-coded XHTML markup

CSS Validator Changes the Rules

“CSS Validator Changes the Rules”:https://www.zeldman.com/daily/0204b.shtml The W3C�s CSS validation service has changed the way it interprets CSS authoring practices. Many sites that were designed valid no longer validate.

When Word-to-XML Conversions Get Nasty

“When Word-to-XML Conversions Get Nasty”:https://www.dclab.com/wordtoxml.asp Mike Gross, Chief Technology Officer at Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc., reveals the five ways your conversion engine can get broken when converting MS Word documents to XML.

Showing your face

“Andy Borrows(Older and growing…)”:https://olderandgrowing.blogspot.com/ has discovered the soul of a writer inside an engineer. One of his better recent pieces is as a “guest writer(Heart @ Work)”:https://www.heartatwork.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_heartatwork_archive.html#107579760624826228 on “Heart at Work(Heart at Work: Lois Annich’s weblog)”:https://www.heartatwork.blogspot.com, in which he ends with a metaphor that works superbly for me too… It struck me that blogging is like walking around showing your face to the world, making eye contact with those you pass on the street, open to your surroundings.

Project Rhythms

“Project Rhythms”:https://www.jrothman.com/weblog/archive/2004_02_01_mpdarchive.html#107581894680764235