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faked out

So Fake Steve has been revealed. And the author, Dan Lyons, apparently has a blog called Floating Point. For the record, this blog has been around since May 2006, vs October 2006 for his. On the other hand, his actually contains content and probably has multiple readers.

underlining all links

A recent trend in web design is to turn off underlining for links, relying purely on the color changes to tip off readers that they’re links. While I agree that this often makes for a more attractive page, many designers end up choosing colors for link text that are difficult for colorblind folks like [...]

Screenshot of the day

I double-clicked on a diagram in a word document that I received:

That is all.

Versioning Data Formats

A simple rule for designing data formats: if you want your data format to declare in-band what its format version is (and you probably do), then you MUST guarantee that the version identifier appears at a relatively fixed position near the top and is parsable with a minimum of effort.
vCalendar 1.0 and its successor iCalendar [...]