In miscellaneous additions to the HTML5 language since v4, you’ve gotta love the choice of example the standards committee uses (further down the page) for the new dialog element…
The element means (although I abhor the lack of ending tags) that a browser could conceivably "play" a dialog through a voice synthesizer bank, with each "actor" (identified by the dt) being assigned a different voice. Read more »
Three versions of the Medieval IT Helpdesk sketch with subtitles (a monk familiar with scrolls is having problems with a book). Each is a slightly different translation. I think the first is the funniest, but the writing is a bit small. Read more »
David, in rebuking me for not being in on whatever it is that he’s pushing, made the following comments; Read more »
It’s either sad or hilarious… my post KRudd becomes Big Brother got picked up here (right next to a post of "Robert in the shower" - shudder to think what that is) by a website devoted to that horrible TV show and the bogans who watch it.
I guess they didn’t do any lexical analysis of the post. Read more »
As anyone who’s been reading this blog for the past couple of months knows I’ve been in a protracted move of residence. Inevitably, this has meant moving furniture.
I write the following somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
I’ve moved quite a bit ever since the first half of the 1990s, my longest stay being in Norwood for just over three years. Read more »
You may wish to take not that my title is somewhat sarcastic. Sarcastic? Noooooooo? Read more »
Excuse me, but is Victoria no longer part of Australia? It looks like we’ve already left the Commonwealth by looking at the Victorian Government Media Releases Page that displays releases by date - which uses US format (and makes searching for things on 05/06 or 06/05 moot!). Read more »
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