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24th September 2003

Weblog Workshop by BloggingWorks

There are still a few spots left for the Friday, October 3rd Chicago workshop. Sign up now! “Business blogs are taking off. Are you up to speed? Learn how your business can harness the power of weblogs to improve communication and efficiency at this hands-on workshop.”

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24th September 2003

Lost in Translation

“At the tattoo parlor, Marcus Gonzales found a list of Chinese characters and picked ’strength’ and ‘courage.’ His Tai-chi teacher finally confessed that they really say ‘dog’ and ‘puppy.’”

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24th September 2003

Character Entity References in HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0

“Here is a set of tables containing the 252 allowed entities in HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0, as described in section 24 of the official HTML 4 specifications, published by the W3C. I have divided them into my own, hopefully logical, categories.”

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24th September 2003

Brushed Metal is Ugly

“This Web site is an open letter to Apple, maker of the world’s best-looking computers and operating system, asking it not to implement the ugly look of brushed metal in the next version of the Finder.”

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