Archive
January 2006’s Posts.
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Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 is out
Okay, what do we think?
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He’s not Dave Shea
Ironically, when the CSS Zen Garden launched I (and Doug Bowman, I think) misspelled Shea’s name.
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fifth estate online
Watch some of the best documentaries, for free, on the CBC’s fifth estate site
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What we use in our Web pages
Google has analyzed the HTML used to build the Web pages of the world, and the results are quite interesting.
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Google News recommends
Now out of an ridiculously long beta, Google News is now offering recommended news stories.
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IE 7 Beta 2 leaked to Web
The latest beta of Internet Explorer (supposedly the one with the fixes) is now in the wild. Officially relase to come?
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Paul Martin resigning as Liberal leader
Let the horse race begin. Will it be Ignatieff, Stronach, a Chrétien-ite?
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NDP make big gains
Looks like the NDP did as good as they were hoping this time, and their members will help keep the Conservatives in check.
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CBC: Conservative minority
Damn, damn, double damn.
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Election 2006 Mashup
Wiki, meets Google Map, meets poll of the Canadian election.
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Results by riding
Track the country, a province, or region by riding during the 2006 Canadian election.
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Track your riding
Follow your riding in the 2006 Canadian election.
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Canadians vote today
And if you need some help picking the best party (ahem, not Conservative) use this tool and discover which party platforms you agree with.
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Firefox Extension: FireBug
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1843&application=firefox
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Firefox 2.0 Roadmap
Ben Goodger outlines the plans for 2.0, which involve only user-interface enhancements.
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The first failed redesign of 2006?
The Canadian New Media Awards site fails to meet any of Joe Clark’s criteria.
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Enlarging images on the page
Very simple little JavaScript that does exactly whatever I never had the time to build.
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Safari gets a DOM Inspector
Now if only Opera would follow suit…
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Getting abbreviations right
Years ago I dipped my toes in these waters. Colin Lieberman goes deep.
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An expert-based Wikipedia
The Digital Universe feels, in everything, almost a decade late.
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Peter C. Newman on the Canadian election campaign
His typically colourful analysis argues that our democracy is teetering on the brink.
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JavaScript debugger for Internet Explorer
I am really, really hating IE right now, but this debugger may improve my temperament slightly.
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iWeb makes bad Web code
HTML and CSS output look to be almost as bad as the stuff produced by FrontPage.
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Behind the myth of newspapers
Michael Kinsley examines newspapers and muses on their future in this excellently written commentary.
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CBC News to be hip
A logo change and some feature changes are in store Monday on Canada’s public broadcaster to make it more “cool”.
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Eight-year-old reporters?
I know its a PR stunt, but c’mon…
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Irving Layton dead at 93
One of Canada’s greatest 20th century poets has died.
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