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Days ago, I was looking at a website powered by Textpattern (beta) – a Textism project. Today, I was reminded by Kristen about the Movable Type creators’ new venture into web publishing, Typepad – a tier-based system targetted at people who are less familiar with raw HTML code: ‘If you’re interested in a system where…

The upholder of Web Standards is also a champion of web designer rights. And I thought I was the only one suffering from dealings with people who don’t know how to work a browser properly.

Title: UN Weapons Inspector Role: To investigate possible violations of UN regulations with regard to the possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The weight of the world will be on your shoulders as your official verdict may very well determine the outcome of a war. Occupational hazards: Will be frequently taken to task seperately…

A couple of programming-related incidents happened today, but it also boils down to the mentality of ‘just enough is enough, I’m not doing any extra for you’. It’s disturbing because it’s a mentality I still notice in Singapore, and we have a lot to learn from counterparts in the US.

You may notice that my front page’s nav bar has a new section – Now Playing. Well I was browsing through the Movable Type forums looking for interesting tweaks, and came across this tutorial which teaches you how to sync up your Winamp player to your weblog. Essentially you configure Winamp to send a trackback…

The Poynter Institute reports that Dave Winer is in negotiations with the New York Times to open their archives to people linking from weblogs. Now this may be good news for some of us, but I forsee that this permission may be exploited. It’s asserted elsewhere however that this benefit will apply only to Userland…