I decided to check my stylesheets for validation something I had not done for a while, to find to my surprise that ones that validated before (and had not been altered) had some new warnings.

They were all about needing the background-color attribute along with the color attribute in most areas, that was in my case anyway. Have been busy correcting this, all are now done, but have had to go through my pages to see if the render as I want them. The validating url is at :-

If you have some time to spare, check it out!

I came onto this site today that promises a different look at the news. It says things are published on Swoogle, a semantics search engine. Only thing is that they appear to have borrowed their look color and design features from elsewhere and Swoogle has a familiar ring to it as well.

Who knows what they mean? I don’t when they say really key stuff like:

The extracted meaning from the RSS descriptions of the news articles are then converted into Semantic Web representation such as RDF. This is also stored in a Redland Triple store and lets users perform semantic queries over the documents. This enables them to search for information that would otherwise not be easy to find using simple keyword based search. It also makes available important and live new related automatically extracted meta-data and semantics to agents by publishing it in RDF.

Trust me as soon as I figure out, I’ll let you know.

Today in my wanderings I came upon the site Creative Component dot Com. I have to tell the truth here (and this might serve me well if I get to other sites the same way at some point that are less credible) and admit I have no idea how I came to be here. It was open in a tab … It immediately grabbed my eye. It is vibrant. The leading article at the time I arrived to this blog style site was about a Moose Taking a Bath … so between the vibrant color and the unusual topic featured near the top, I decided that I should have a bit of a hunt around the site.

This is a nice feature. This Firefox extension called View Rendered Source Chart will graphically show you sections of defined code in a web page. Really an advanced form of syntax highlighting or intellegent indenting might be a way to think of this extension. See the screenshots on the extension page or over here where the history of the extension is laid out in great detail to demonstrate how well maintained the extension is.

According to this article at C-Net, Microsoft is pushing hard to bring the small business user into a Web 2.0 umbrella where services are hosted on-line via Microsoft Servers. I think that many clients and customers will find this type of thing a welcome addition, much like consumers embrace Flickr, for example. Of course the issue will be uptime and security — two things the masters of the blue screen seem to sometimes struggle with. It will be interesting to watch it play out.

The teams put their unbeaten strings on the line. Thirty four straight for the Trojans to nineteen for the Longhorns. The game is great thus far in the third quarter. Lead changes are plenty. Exciting play on the field. But lets talk about something serious: who has the better cheerleaders? The Horns like Jessica or the Trojans ladies?

Great game but who cares who wins it? Texas does. Final 41 to 38.

One of the most overlooked aspects of web page authoring is the title html tag. This tag is important because it does each of these things:

• displays on the application bar
• is the text shown in a bookmark of the page
• may assist in finding it in a search engine because it displays in most cases
• may be given key priority in search engine keyword searches if it matches page content

There is a good article on how to write good title tags here.