JBVoices
Breezing the shoot. Random mutterings of a Web Developer.

May 1st each year is officially Blogging Against Disablism day.

Started 3 years ago by Diary of a Goldfish, each year it goes from strength to strength with people from all walks of life posting interesting articles about their view of living with some sort of illness or disability, caring for the same or just people who care.

When I posted my blog last year I was in the last group. Since Feb 4th this year I’ve suddenly been transported to the first group. It’s been an interesting transformation.

If you’d like to join in on the day, go register your blog site with the Goldfish.

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Yet another hosting problem hence the hugely interesting PHP code on the right instead of the usual links. I’m in the process of shifting the whole lot to a new host who hopefully doesn’t suddenly decide to completely bork their set-up. Normal service will be resumed…….

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I was reading through some back posts on other people’s blogs and came across an item from November 2006 by Jack Pickard entitled Bigotry in the UK where he talks about those who seem to feel that they are so secure in their public idolatry that they can treat everyone else with disdain.

What got me motivated to write was Jack’s mention of Mike Newell, the then boss of struggling Luton Town Football Club, and his sexist comments about female game officials. This is one of those examples where you can honestly say, “it’s not like the old days”, and be pretty sure you’re not just looking back with rose coloured specs.

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Yes, it’s the newest thing in web design. All you have to do is nip over to the W3C site and find the page with all the W3C Valid badges.

Don’t worry about the License agreement and terms of use:……. Just grab a few and then liberally slap them over your page. If your site happens to have the same colour scheme then so much the better but even if it doesn’t, a few strategically placed icons can make all the difference.

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Here we go again. The Me Mes are at it.

Personally I think this is a cheap way of getting backlinks and I’m thinking of charging for it.

Sort of PPM (Pay per Meme).

The rules of this latest round are:

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Every now and then I come across something on the web that I find truly funny.

This one made me laugh out loud. Whoever did it is definitely a developer who has struggled with accessible, semantic, valid sites and the hassles of Internet Explorer. Mystery artist, I feel your pain.

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