I worry about A.I
The Hoyts theatre chain has an appalling website.
I'm hanging out for an Android phone
Telling people they deserve the laws they get for not paying attention to politicians is just short hand for saying only politicians have rights.
Apart from being annoyingly awkward, Bliuetooth has one particularly annoying facet....
The nonsense the media says
The pace of technical developement is ferocious, and the diffilculty in keeping up is especially troubling for computer Operating Systems.
Prescriptionists who insist 'man' is gender neutral as talking bollocks, not English
Is it economic competiton that drives quality down?
Bloody Ldap nonsense!
What sort of ignorant coward advises others not to go to Gallipoli because it scares them?
Eclipse sucks.
I just checked out Firefox 3.5's geolocation feature, expecting it to maybe get my city and it pinpointed my home address.
It's quite easy to compel standards compliance
A long time ago I took Economics 101 at university and dropped it as a load of bollocks.
Websites that rely on flash should be added to a black list so we can all go about blissfully ignorant of their existence
Pricks tugging on a knee jerk rope of patriotism annoy me again
Doesn't patronising parochialism get your goat?
Every computer language has flaws.
I chose Ruby over Python
I'm thinking people who bang the Law and Order drum do it to drown out the voice of dissent and liberty.
NATO's aid to a successful rebellion does not give it ownership of the success.
Would someone, please, pay a good designer to work on desktops for Linux.
Android has a bit of a problem in it's variety of hardware.
I've just been watching a program about the future of media consumption, and it made the same old mistake about TV/Computer convergence that people always make.
How many movies do we see that end satisfyingly?
Troops killing civilians, no matter what rules they follow, are murderers...
New Zealand has the worst government it's had since the nineteenth century.
Aren't some of the connections between some scientific studies a bit obvious?
The very concept of patents on software is ridiculous, even more so the preposterous idea that prior art means anything.
Fantasies about reality and authority may comfort some, but have no place in civil governance
What difference is there between my ethical position and anothers' religious practice?
Corporate entitlement has gotten ludicrous
The mainstream media keeps whining that the world needs them to keep a check on power.
Mother Earth can be a real Mutha
Companies that abuse openly available standards (even if proprietary) really get on my wick. For instance...
Remeber the Jetsons? A world where automation meant people only needed to work an hour or two a day to afford a comfortable life. Who ever thought economics could work that way?
The National Party of New Zealand wants to make NZ citizens bitches for wealthy people; peasants servile to their needs.
The single most important thing for civil society is the rule of law and repression of corruption.
I am not scared of the wider world attacking me, my government oppressing me is the more credible danger
What's the point of news snippets for the brain dead?
Why did Fox's attempts to emulate Jon Stewart fail?
People eager to constrain their identity within a recognisable national sterotype are pissing me off
Among the problems creating web pages have fieldsets and their legends are a great example.
The HMTL spec says what a fieldset legend ought look like, but you can't render/specify it with CSS.
A fieldset legend is suppossed to lie across any fieldset border, and appear transparent with regard to background colours but not the border it lies across.
So browsers make up their own mind about how CSS ought effect fieldset legends and they all differ on it. The important part about the differences also involves how the legends are positioned.
To successfully render styled fiedsets and their legends similarly in all browsers fieldset contents have to be wrapped in a block (i.e div) to allow for moving the contents relative to the legend if it's moved itself.
The ONLY reason that div and many many others exist in web pages is to allow for the application of styles to acheive desired appearances and behaviours and their proliferation pollutes markup and actively undermines efforts to reconcile ymantic content and custom presentation.
Which makes me think CSS ought be able to insert 'markup' (nodes in the dom) before styling it so a truer spearation of content and style can be acheived.
Well, that sounds a lot like what XSLT was intended to be used for - if you stream well formed markup to a client it can apply a simple transformation that reorders/inserts markup on the client.
But that means a whole new technology (that's verbose and a little bit complex) for CSS stylers to learn barring the way to improved semantic content. I suggest it'd be easier for the world to adopt such advances by offering them as additional features of CSS rather than a whole new arcane technology.
Maybe the way to do it is with additional psuedo classes like, perhaps div.class:wrapper, div.class:sleave div.class:predecessor or div.class:successor to target 'virtual' initially unstyled elements.