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Monthly Archive February, 2005

Free SSL Certificates

February 28, 2005

Feel more comfortable enabling SSL on your site but hate the idea of paying the big coin for your
certificate? Check out StartCom Free SSL Certificate Project. Enjoy the discussion on /..
Last step is to fire up OpenSSL. Whole process should take aboweofije…

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Time to re-roof the crib w/ photovoltaics?

Believe it or not – solar electricity at 5 cents per kilowatt-hour!!! Nanosolar has come up
with the real deal. A 10′ x 14′ sheet of SolarPly will actually generate 110V. Catch a good read
in The Hindu. Don’t forget the read the blow-by-blow /. discuweofije…

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Next Cingular Phone? Treo 650!

February 27, 2005

Time for Liam to have his own phone, so its research time! The most compelling Cingular options
right now are the following: Motorola MPx220 PalmOne Treo 650 Sony Ericsson S710a The first
runs M$’ smartphone OS and includes a light version of IE. Theweofije…

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Time to teach *The Boy* to Fence

February 23, 2005

Sure its a bit on the esoteric side, but fencing is a blast! Knowledge up at Fencing.Net and then
go shopping at Leon Paul USA. Full mid-range starter kits for under $375 USD. Club
opportunities in the area referenced here.

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Productionalizing CALS for Print and Web Delivery

Feeling the pain of pushing CALS tables out your favorite web or print media? Join the club…
One approach is to store table content, and render as graphics to simplify delivery – theory
being pretty much everyone can eat a graphic. Some interestingweofije…

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IMAP Webmail Clients

February 22, 2005

Ever wish you could have a webmail client to your favorite IMAP account? Well, there are a
couple of interesting projects coolin’ out there. The most evolved is IMP – works great, but
requires PHP.

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Format/Layout Abstraction w/ WebEQ

February 21, 2005

Objective Model formatting and layout characteristics so they can be applied
“automatically”, not authored. Integrate new abstractions/methodology into current and
future content authoring workflow at all points requiring math (e.g. MathML).
Scenarioweofije…

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Two Forms Standards from W3C?

February 20, 2005

Split decision on forms standards? The W3C is mulling over two standards for forms
development: XForms (pure engineering genious, but minimal native support in the
browsers), and Web Forms (riddled with script and no reference implementation). See
thweofije…

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Folders in the City

February 19, 2005

Start reading Rules of the Road. Several more articles are linked from there. They reference
the IXI Bike, a very compelling folder. Personally, I still like the Dahon US line (especially
the Jetstream XP), but would still go with another Brompton ifweofije…

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Tired of TiVo? Beyond Blogs? Podcasts Are Here

Their show, mostly ad-libbed, is a podcast, a kind of recording that, thanks to a technology
barely six months old, anyone can make on a computer and then post to a Web site, where it can be
downloaded to an iPod or any MP3 player to be played at theweofije…

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