I’ve just applied for my European Health Insurance Card (no more E-111s!), and thought “gosh, isn’t this font small? and isn’t the menu highlight poorly written? that’s some bad CSS there I reckon – let’s take a look at the source”. So I did. Five minutes later, I came around. At various points in the source, there are four HTML Doctypes declared, each one followed by openi...

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Simon writes about the legion of non-HTML text markup languages and introduces his own (we have enough. please stop now. Maybe writing your own markup language is the new “writing your own wiki“, which was the new “writing your own aggregator” ?) Anyway, he points out that anyone entering italic*italic-bo...

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Marc Canter: Getting FOAFy Marc now includes links to the FOAF explorer and “Add me to your FOAF file” links as well as one to his plain FOAF file. Something for me to pick up on too, I think.

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Both Brad Choate and Dean Allen had already mentioned it, and now it comes to fruition – Textile 2. Featuring such stuff as tables, spans, lang= attributes as well as nifty linking shortcuts, this is good news for everyone except the people who have to update their own textile implementat...

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