Living life in a cubicle? At work, I just moved from the cozy confines of the designer's room (khaki walls, IKEA-provided indirect lighting, ironic bank of high-school lockers) to a spot in the developer's cube-farm. So I've started looking for links to resources for improving my surroundings.

I've been working again on a tool at work that uses JQuery to dynamically load various files into the content area of a locally based web page to test css-based templates. The tool was working fine in Firefox and IE6, then I recently "upgraded" to IE7 and it went all wonky on me. After a day or so of Googling, I found this post from Xavier Hanin: IE7 support for XmlHttpRequest which details the fact that IE7's XMLHTTPRequest cannot load files from disk (file:// urls).

I whipped up an XFN test page with some XFN test data for those developing parsers or other tools. It has all the canonical cases from the 1.1 profile, as well as a variety of common-sense two-relationship combinations, and a basic set of invalid relationships (>1 friendship value, for example).

Looks like iPhone may be powered by ARM indeed:

I've ditched del.icio.us, and imported all my links into ma.gnolia, based largely on an interview with Tara Hunt (of community marketing studio Citizen Agency) by Brian Oberkirch. The site is very nicely designed, the link bookmarklet works well, and they have ratings on links. (Hm, Perhaps I should recommend they add vote-links support...)

The Stevenote is today, and as anyone who has spent time in the RDF will tell you, it's like the Nexus: "a mysterious plane of existence in which time has no meaning, and one may live in pure bliss forever"...

"This is my life and this is my time"...

>From your 169 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 3,640 items, starred 0 items, and shared 40 items.

As a few of my readers may have discerned, I've gotten a bit obsessed with microformats lately. Microformats are simple ways to add machine (searchengine, browser-plugin)-readable information to normal, XHTML-based web pages. They are designed to be simple so that they are easy for authors and publishers to add to their content rather than having to support separate, more verbose content formats.

>Stationed at South Korea's border with the North, my friend's job was to create soundscapes. By mixing sound effects loops, he created the audio illusion of an apparently endless procession of armored vehicles. To the North Koreans, who could not see what was on the other side, it sounded like an immense army was mobilizing at their border.

If you find yourself behind a firewall or filter that blocks popular podcast file servers like libsyn, try out the Feed Coralizer. The Feed Coralizer rewrites the feed, routing (mp3/m4a/m4v/wav/aiff/wma/wmv/mov/mp4/mpeg/avi/pdf) files through the Coral network.

about-this-site

I've finally updated my about page, with some new information, hcard marked-up content, and (for posterity's sake) a copy of my first about page ever.

I've finally updated my about page, with some new information, hcard marked-up content, and (for posterity's sake) a copy of my first about page ever.

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I've finally updated my about page, with some new information, hcard marked-up content, and (for posterity's sake) a copy of my first about page ever.

Based on some feedback from the trac issue, I've updated my VoteBack post and plugin.

Michael Kaply blogs about Windows Live Clipboard support for microformats in the Operator plugin for Firefox.

Evan Prodromou is cleverly marking vote-links on his with Unicode symbols: ❤ and ☠.

Last night I dreamed that I got hired by The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Only they were based in Altensteig, Germany (where I worked for several years). Riiiiiight.

I've been hacking on a Wordpress implementation of VoteLinks - one that actually discovers if the incoming link contains a vote in the form of a rev attribute with one of the vote-link values: vote-for vote-abstain or vote-against.

I learned about VoteLinks from Jeremy Keith's post on 24Ways, and posted yesterday about some css+javascript VoteLink UI experiments.