Move !

Reading « goer.org »:http://www.goer.org/Journal/2003/Oct/index.html#21, found « powered by Moveable Type 2.64″ link, curiously clicked and discovered that MT .org exists with & without *e* (both are the official 6 apart site).

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Gary moves

Gary of « Dixiesys »:http://dixiesys.com/ (who hosts « Soours »:http://www.soours.com) bought a new house for $ 144 K. He reviews his life as a web hosting company manager in « a short post »:http://forums.dixiesys.com/index.php?s=d8a93d276c144d12fdbad438af553ac6&showtopic=4983# wich sounds to me as the real US of A. In a « following post »:http://forums.dixiesys.com/index.php?s=add02e682e94ddd9004082e3a716af7e&showtopic=4983&st=15# in same « thread »:http://forums.dixiesys.com/index.php?s=d8a93d276c144d12fdbad438af553ac6&showtopic=4983&st=0, Gary points out the price of housing in CA, compared to the prices in NA. Using this rare piece of information, I did the following reality check:

* basic home in CA: $ 350 K (EUR 320 K – FFR 2 M)
* decent home in CA: $ 420 K (EUR 360 K – FFR 2.35 M)
* decent place in NA: $ 85 K (EUR 73 K – FFR 480 K)
* pretty nice place in NA: $ 150 K (EUR 130 K – FFR 850 K)
* gorgeous « showplace » home in NA: $ 250 (EUR 215 K – FFR 1.4 M)
* waterfront on the Lake, private pier, marble or granite counter tops… in NA: $ 400 (EUR 345 K – FFR 2.26 M)
* .13 acres (525 m²) in CA: $ 110 K (EUR 95 K – FFR 623 K)
* 5 room house on .10 acre ground around my place: FFR 1.4 M (EUR 215 K – $ 245 K)

(all change approximate)

*Conclusion:*

# Can’t get to use EURos for high denominations
# Before that I thought that 1 $ = 1 EUR !
# Thanks « Mark »:http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/10/20/foolproof for pointing to « Google calculator »:http://www.google.com/help/features.html#calculator

Bep, bep,…

* « le réseau des CNDP »:http://www.cndp.fr/cndp_reseau/enregion/servdocadmin/services.htm
* « éduclic »:http://educlic.education.fr/Plan.asp?Noeud=247
* « Rénovation des diplômes de niveau V du secteur du Bâtiment et des Travaux Publics »:http://genie-civil.scola.ac-paris.fr/renovation/renovation_0.htm
* « ressources BTP académie de Versailles »:http://www.espace-btp.ac-versailles.fr/btp-frameset-ressources.htm
* « les nouveaux CAP du batiment »:http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/Batiment_Pro/infos/cap2002.html (avec de très bons liens). « cette page »:http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/Batiment_Pro/cadregen.html est aussi un bon point d’entrée.
* « base nationale des sujets d’examens »:http://www.ac-montpellier.fr/ressources/examens/consultation/ (« par diplomes »:http://www.ac-montpellier.fr/ressources/examens/consultation/diplomes.asp?type=510)

Blogs, blogs…

*Iraq*

# « Shiapundit »:http://shiapundit.blogspot.com/ {← »Salam Pax »:http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/2003_08_01_dear_raed_archive.html#106227960244941096}
# « Brooklyn to Baghdad-One backpacker’s trip to Iraq »:http://leonsparx.blogspot.com/ {← « Catallarchy »:http://www.catallarchy.net/ ← « Master ZdF »:http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/dacha/001407.html} check « ZdF’s last Flash »:http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/dacha/standing.html (and you know I *hate* Flash, don’t you?) and »enjoy »:http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/dacha/001418.html :
« So despite the death of the rare people who, as a famous U.S. President put it once, really make a difference in this life, there is a gain to be pulled out from this utter bias of the big media: the Jihad waging turbaned trashes and their AK-47 wielding skuzzballs will certainly stick on that idea of a Great Satan with feet of clay that’s weak, and coward and… Ooops…. Nice shot Jimbo. »
* « Iraq Today »:http://www.iraq-today.com/: « The independant voice of Iraq »
* *Leon Sparx* is the guy who backpacked « from Brooklin to Baghdad »:http://leonsparx.blogspot.com/
* « Kuri » writes his « letters fron Baghdad »:http://lettersfrombaghdad.blogspot.com/ from the inside.

*Libertarians*

# « Liberté chérie »:http://www.liberte-cherie.com/
# « Revue politique »:http://www.revue-politique.com/

Strange behavior

On some sites, Firebird behaves strangely. I do believe this is related to the pages themselves, and to the way Firebird (and some extensions) interprete some pretty hacks.

For instance, when I browse on « Simon Willison’s homepage »:http://simon.incutio.com/, a clic on the middle mouse button produces the same effect regardless of the pointer position: It activates « Autoscroll »:http://texturizer.net/firebird/extensions/#Autoscroll even if pointing at a URL, where it should (well it does on a lot of other sites, and it is the way I want it to behave) open the URL in another tab.
« Firebird Help »:http://texturizer.net/firebird/ on « mouse shortcuts »:http://texturizer.net/firebird/mouse.html says: « Open in Background Tab : Middle-click ».

You know what? RTFM! (wich does not solves the above, but highlights some unknown – to me – Tabbrowser Extensions features)

Shimoda Hiroshi (« outsider reflex »:http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/index.html), author of « Tabbrowser Extensions »:http://texturizer.net/firebird/extensions/#Tabbrowser%20Extensions (aka « Tabbed Browsing Extensions ») wrote on his « Tabbrowser extension homepage »:http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_tabextensions.html.en :

« You can undo Close Tab until fifty times ago. You can re-open the closed tab by Shift+Ctrl+Z or Alt+Z.
(…)
* You can save the current tab session and load it with ease. Operations are called from the new submenu Load Tab Session in Go menu. And, keyboard shortcuts are available: Shift+Ctrl+T to save the current session, Alt+L to show Load Tab Session menu directly.
* You can reopen all of closed tabs with ease. Operations are called from the new submenu Recent Closed Tabs in Go menu. And, a keyboard shortcut is available: Alt+R to show Recent Closed Tabs menu directly.
* You can open last visited tabs insetad of last visited page when Navigator starts up. And, this can restore tabs at the next startup of crash.
* You can open tabs instead of windows opened by links or JavaScript.
* You can set to the location bar, bookmarks, links and external applications to open tabs instead of windows automatically. And, you can open any link to other site in new tab.
* Browser can open new tab with a copied URL (in the clipboard) automatically. »

Character encoding

Thanks to the so-prolific « Simon Willison »:http://simon.incutio.com/ who « pointed »:http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/10/13/practicalUnicode to some of the following:

* Tim Bray (« ongoing »:http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/) wrote a lot on the subject. « Here »:http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/Technology/Coding/Text/ is the main point of entry. Check « On the Goodness of Unicode »:http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/06/Unicode (6 Apr. 03). Update: « UTF-8 names »:http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/10/17/UTF8-plus (8 oct. 03) and « the RFC »:http://www.tbray.org/tag/utf-8+names.html {← »Mark’s b-links »:http://diveintomark.org/}
* Dan Sugalski (« Squawks of the Parrot »:http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/) in an essay called « What the heck is: A string »:http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/000255.html (11 Oct. 03)
* Joel Spolsky (« Joel on software »:http://www.joelonsoftware.com/index.html) wrote « The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) »:http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html Nonetheless! (8 Oct. 03).

Simon’s conclusion: « they all lack one critical aspect: practical advice (…) the web needs practical advice on developing Unicode enabled web pages and web applications. Is it just a case of ensuring my text editor is « saving as Unicode »? What about storage – can I throw Unicode at MySQL and expect it to come out again? If I serve a page up with Japanese characters in it, what will my users have to do to be able to read them? It’s a big, confusing world out there. »

CSS bloggers

Intended as a placeholder for a forecoming new « CSS Blogs » page:

« Tom Gilder »:http://blog.tom.me.uk/ {← »Simon Willison »:http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/10/07/unstructured} :

* « skip navigation » link method
* « Over-Accessible »:http://blog.tom.me.uk/2003/08/28/overaccessible.php
* « Gilder Image Transform technique »:http://blog.tom.me.uk/2003/08/07/gilder_image_transform_technique.php
* « Some people get along well with hardware. I don’t. I seem to either break something from being stupid, ignorant or generally cack-handed » [« x »:http://blog.tom.me.uk/2003/07/27/hardware_hell.php]
* « Winer watcher »:http://blog.tom.me.uk/2003/07/11/blog_editing.php (« additional feedback »:http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/2003/07/10.html#a701)

« David Dorward »:http://dorward.me.uk/ {← »Tom Gilder »:http://blog.tom.me.uk/2003/07/09/why_using_javascript_to_open_fullscreen_windows_is_stupid.php} is the one with the « little c64-style full-CSS house ».

« Todd Dominey »:http://whatdoiknow.org/ {← »Simon Willison »:http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/10/07/unstructured}

« [T]echniques for good HTML accessibility practices (…) are essential to scoring high on Google… » [« x »:http://wolfram.org/writing/howto/3.html]

Christopher Hester (« designdetector »:http://www.designdetector.com/): external llinks aka »tips and demo »:http://www.designdetector.com/tips/tips.php {← « Mark’s bloglist »:http://diveintomark.org/}

Tantek on « little flags »:http://tantek.com/log/2003/01.html#L20030104t1249

« James Seng »:http://james.seng.cc/about/bio.html (« James Seng’s blog »:http://james.seng.cc/): « Bayesian filter for MT »:http://james.seng.cc/archives/000152.html {← »Mark’s b-links »: 20 oct 03}

Meyer says…

« If[Microsoft]just abandoned the public Web and moved everything into a closed, proprietary sandbox of some kind, they might be able to avoid these sorts of problems altogether. That’s exactly what I expect them to do in Longhorn, and the expectation worries me. If the whole world moves into the sandbox-and let’s face it, in an e-commerce sense, IE/Win is the whole world-what reason would there be to pay any more attention to the Web? » « [x] »:http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/200310.html#t200310009

Filtered

* « Tantek »:http://tantek.com/’s « Mid Pass Filter »:http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/midpass.html
[UPDATE] « As with almost all hacks it looks pretty revolting. My recommendation is to accompany all hacks like this used in live stylesheets with a commented link to the page describing the technique. » (« Simon Willison »:http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/10/06/targetIE5)
* Christophe Ducamp (of « e-lanceur »:http://www.elanceur.org/) is the french guy who « translated »:http://www.elanceur.org/jason/BidouillageBoites/BidouillageBoite.html the « Box Model Hack »:http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html. He tells us that « le prologue ?xml n’est pas nécessaire »:http://www.tantek.com/XHTML/Test/minimal.html#withorwithoutxmlprolog, . Must be true, as Tantek is the original author.

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