Submitted by Shelley on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 19:20
If you've been reading my weblogs in their various incarnations since the painful beginning, you've read me talking about my car, Golden Girl.
Golden Girl isn't a fancy car. It's a 4 door 2002 Ford Focus with a Zetec engine and painted in metallic gold. It is my very first car.
No, I'm not so young. I'm just one of those who didn't decide to drive until I was...well, older than most people when they learn to drive. I started to learn to drive in Boston, practiced cross country, and received my first driver's license in San Francisco. I bought Golden Girl a few months later via the internet, at a time when this was still a very new idea. I test drove a Focus, but didn't meet Golden Girl until I picked her up.
Submitted by Shelley on Thu, 04/28/2011 - 13:06
For what it's worth, I'm on Facebook again. I had to join when people kept sending me links to stories that are on Facebook, which I couldn't see because I didn't have an account.
It is an easy way to stay in touch with people, and I can type more than 140 characters.
The Facebook now seems busier than the Facebook I belonged to, long ago. I doubt I'll be too active, and I'm not sure how to link my site directly, but I imagine you can find me by searching on my name.
Now you can Friend me and Follow Me, but you still can't hold my hand.
Submitted by Shelley on Mon, 03/21/2011 - 09:29
I published my first WHATWG Weekly. I don't know how I did it, but I ended up missing five HTML5 WG co-chair decisions in the first go round. However, I updated the report to catch these issues, and I don't think anyone minded.
My change proposal to remove progress failed, which was no surprise.
Tired as all get out, as I'm trying to finish work on two O'Reilly books this week. One is a tech review, only; the other a tech review, plus I'm writing two chapters.
On the puppy mill front, it does seem as if Proposition B vote is going to be overridden by the legislature. This is a case where representatives are actually going against the wishes of the people of their district. This has led to all sorts of chatter about elected officials being "representatives" as compared to being "trustees", ala Edmund Burke. It's frustrating and fascinating at the same time.
Submitted by Shelley on Sat, 01/22/2011 - 19:54
I have an HTML5 change proposal I need to finish in the next couple of weeks, but there's dozens more I'd like to write. However, if I'm going to pay my taxes come this April, then I must put my focus into paid writing.
Perhaps what I need to do is get sponsorship for each change proposal. Yeah, that's what I can do—list out each change proposal and ask for sponsors for each.
Does this sound oddly wrong? Well, I figure if the W3C can come out with an all powerful HTML5 logo that looks like it would be worn by a guy in tights with a cape, followed the next day with the WhatWG announcing that the "5" in HTML5 is dead (all the while, both organizations state their undying love for each other), I can ask for change proposal sponsors. It's a brave new world, kiddies.
