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This news is all over the place but I know it will be of interest to Nebula colleagues: From Microsoft:
"We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously. Microsoft recently published a set of Interoperability Principles. Thinking about IE8’s behavior with these principles in mind, interpreting web content in the most standards compliant way possible is a better thing to do."
– IEBlog (Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager, Internet Explorer)

There is a lot of debate about whether Microsoft has seen the light, whether they’re finally listening to web developers, or whether they’re just responding to their recent legal loss in the EU. I’m not interested in debating motivations, that’s happening in lots of blogs and forums. I’m just passing on the info.

I seem to have drummed up a little passion from people still suffering over at my former web host PowWeb. Check here for referrals to my current hosts.

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There are a number of products that allow us to control other desktops, do presentations, etc.. I thought I’d share my experience with a few.

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I have a couple pages that discuss hacking in the "white hat" sense of business website enhancement. There is another side to this that I think should be exposed. To beat a hacker you have to think like one, and if you aren’t thinking like one then your site may be vulnerable to someone who is. Let’s look at some ways people can hack your web-based busines site, shall we?

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Once in a while, people will ask questions in a Usenet forum that have nothing to do with the actual forum topic. One of our colleagues asked about the nature of Usenet itself in our comp.databases.pick newsgroup. I’ve posted a lot of info like this in CDP in the past but it seems to get lost in the ether, so now I’m posting it here.

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The last several months have been hell as far as getting and sending email, and for a while dynamic pages on this site (like this blog) were returning server errors to our visitors. I finally changed my host for email and I’m about to switch HTTP services as well. Here’s the story.

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The site has been updated to WordPress v2.0.1, the very latest version of the blog software available. This requires the simultaneous update of many plugins from independent authors. As I find out what works with this release I will be adding some features and removing others - that’s how this game is played. Please let me know if you find any errors via e-mail or by adding a comment to this post. This post will be updated with more information about all of the plugins being used on this site.

 This post will contain a list of enhancement ideas that I come up with. At some point I’ll submit the list to them or I’ll try to do a couple of them myself. (more…)

I was originally impressed with the WordPress WYSIWYG editor - then I saw limitations. Now, as with every aspect of WP, it seems this area can be customized or replaced altogether, so I guess I’ll find an adequate solution soon. (more…)

I’ve had various reasons for not doing a blog, but now there are reasons to do one.

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