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Archive for October 2004

best of track: conversion to web standards

Posted on 10/13/2004

Daniel from UWisconsin Platt
http://www.uwplatt.edu/web/webstandards
talk about changes in methodology, along with concepts, reasons to make the switch.
zen thing: is standards, aren’t standards.
if you think of the W3C as the UN… if the countries in the UN don’t want to play well, they don’t. but the UN at least has an army; maybe the W3C […]

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last night

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[written in my room, so when no net access]
Just got back from going out on the evening excursion. Started out at an art place in Rochester, with little snacks and cool art. Interesting conversation with a woman from UMichigan and a guy from Albert Einstein Medical. Then ran into some younger (my […]

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nap

Posted on 10/12/2004

instead of going to session #10, I went up to my room to get a nap. best thing I could’ve done, even though some of the presentations sounded quite interesting. now I feel like a real live human being again, even with just an hour’s sleep, washing my face, and putting up my […]

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cms 9: content mgt best practices

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asking who’s using a CMS, satisfaction.
wacky graphics showing a messed up navigation system.
slide with teeny tiny font. she’s lost her microphone, and she’s not not quite loud enough. hey, she’s asking and now holding the mic…I can hear her!
what it can’t do: write the content (sounds silly, but…. ah, it sounds like […]

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how odd

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sometime in the last 6 years (after Elizabeth graduated), our old high school became an International Baccalaureate school. WTF? (when I went there, it was a pretty rough school; we had a gang riot during my senior year.)
I wonder if people who went to my college alma mater have the same reaction to […]

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a little fresh air

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I’m sitting out on the patio in the middle of the hotel, and yes, the wifi reaches out here. the laptop is a little hard to read, but it’s worth it just to get some sun & fresh air.
Susan & I went for a quick walk around the hotel during one of the breaks […]

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Hi! This is Elaine Nelson's site, which used to be at epersonae.com, and which is sometimes known as emergency weblog.