All-day blogging

A Fatal Blow to Shrinkwrap Licensing? It's a classic tale of girl meets proprietary software, girl undresses proprietary software only to find the terms of the EULA to be unacceptable, girl returns proprietary software, CompUSA doesn't let her, girl sues CompUSA, Adobe, Staples, Best Buy, Microsoft and Symantec.

Web inaccessibility `creates 'net underclass'.

Some of the sites linked to amuse me. For example, with a frameset says:

This CD-ROM uses frames. Please use a frame enabled browser.

It's not a CD-ROM and it doesn't have any noscript tags.

<!-- Hide from JavaScript-Impaired Browsers

They realise that the Javascript is hidden from browsers without Javascript yet they don't realise that the site is entirely inaccessible to browsers without Javascript. What morons.

On the Open Internet, a Web of Dark Alleys. Sorry for linking to the New York Times, but the article was just so amusing. You can use BugMeNot or the Google exploit. When reading articles like this I feel the need to write secure communication applications.

Calendar reform. For some reason I don't take these people very seriously;

3.) Doesn't your innovation mean that, for some folks, the date changes when the sun is overhead?

Yes ... but those folks live in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
They don't care what day it is anyway!

I have a few pratcial problems with this calendar. For a start, they provide no algorithm for calculating which year the Newton month falls upon and they expect people to rely upon a list. The list goes from 2003--9998: not very useful when you want to calculate Newton months in the past or distant future.

Forgotten Element Types. Apart from the notes about abbr and acronym which I don't really agree with (and a few commenters don't, I can see), I'd say this was a rather good article.