SSWI — When in doubt, buff it out.

I am leaving today to attend the CCCU Tech Conference where for once, I will be attending and not speaking. Hopefully I can learn me something.

I will have sporadic access to email, and the net so if you don’t hear from me right away, it isn’t because I am ignoring you, or more often the case, don’t have time to respond.

I am having an odd problem, and I have run out of patience trying to solve it.

For some reason, in the last 2 - 3 days my js-foo has been breaking in Firefox.  And not all the time mind you, sometimes you will load the site and it will work fine.  I have it working in Safari, the only other browser I care about.

I am sure some of you are wondering where I am lately, and what I am up to.  Quite a few irons are in the fire currently, let me show you a couple of them.

On the book front

Hot on the heels of my Blog Design Solutions experience I was offered a book deal of my own by Apress. I am 5 chapters in on a book that covers development with WordPress.  Aren’t you all excited?

9rulers sweeping at SXSW this year.

It looks like some congratulations are in order for some friends.  Veloso, brought home the gold (blog design of the year) as well as 9rules as a whole and Mike won designer of the year.

It is not that often that you are able to have a pleasant conversation online.  Add in that you are trying to offer support and help, and it gets even unlikelier.  When you add in the whole "internet celebrity" angle and well as my redneck step-father would say "kadie-bar the door"

The thing is, that now on no less than three separate occasions I have had wonderful conversation with Molly E. Holzschlag.

I have added the really nifty recent referrers to the sidebar, which is a good thing.

Unfotunately the search string pattern used by google.com is not valid (X)HTML

Well after upgrading b2 a couple of times I lost all my groovy adherences to accessability and validation services.

I have cleaned up b2, and even gone beyond what I formerly had. This site now validates as XHTML 1.0 strict :: CSS 2 :: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 and U.S. Section 508 Guidelines.

Well MeanDean is at it again.

This time he is reminding us that we as +3cH +yPE PE0plE, should be spreading the word about the BlogMD initiative.

Of course he is correct. I was just formulating opinions on this subject before I added any content to the blog about it. I still don’t have any concrete feelings about it, other than to say that it is good, and that it needs to happen, but not at the expense of the less technical.

I have officially moved to the 1.1 doctype of XHTML

I currently am looking into the feasability of moving to 2.0 once more than a draft is released.

Or Hallelujah! Whatever.

I just might have to stop making so much fun of AOL. It seems that the new version of thier connectivity software for MacOS X.2 ships powered by Gecko.