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At the Gov2.0 taskforce road­show I ended up in con­ver­sa­tion with a rep­res­ent­at­ive of one Depart­ment bemoan­ing the fact the Gov­ern­ment will not give them extra money to make their web­sites WCAG 1.0 level 2 compliant.

Twit­ter has changed the way I watch pro­cyc­ling races, it has provided me far more inform­a­tion, than I was get­ting before and it is all Lance Armstrong’s fault …

My present­a­tion was done with little pre­par­a­tion and no slides, but I used a num­ber of sites as examples, so at Vel­vetSarah’s request, here are links to those sites. State Premier’s John Brumby Mike Rann Colin Barnett Blogs Trans­port Secur­ity Blog what a Gov­ern­ment blog should be State Lib­rary of West­ern Aus­tralia blog Face­book School Leavers […]

Then purely by acci­dent I saw the Crumpler Yee Ross on the Crumpler web site, a Crumpler back­pack that can be used as a hydra­tion pack. So I went to my local Crumpler store, check it out and walked away after pur­chas­ing last year’s model (more on that later) …

This is my infam­ous bag that has been repor­ted to the local Crumpler store on more than one occa­sion, because I had the auda­city to sten­cil my blog URL on it, to clearly identify as mine.

Three years ago, I bought a Crumpler bag on …

It has been three months since my last post, and while I have not pos­ted here or at my other blog, I have not aban­doned either site.

As I have only worked 50 of the last 100 days, this blog should be full of inter­est­ing posts on CSS and other web geekery. Instead noth­ing, why?

I have been exper­i­ment­ing with the :first-letter pseudo-element to try and write up a tutorial on using first-letter, adja­cent select­ors and @font-face to pro­duce drop caps and I have run into a prob­lem in the form of Fire­fox. Because you need to apply the prop­erty float: left to stop first-letter being an inline ele­ment and Fire­fox applies dif­fer­ent rules to floated :first-letter pseudo-element than the other browsers, mak­ing it dif­fi­cult to ver­tic­ally align a floated :first-letter pseudo-element and the the remain­ing text.

There are a num­ber of people demon­strat­ing what is pos­sible is pos­sible with CSS3, here are a few of the bet­ter ones I have found.

My wish list of browsers I would like not to sup­port in 2009. One might sur­prise you and top of my list is not IE6

A little exper­i­ment with a two pop­u­lar win­dows fonts and a num­ber of dif­fer­ent browsers, and one pain­ful result