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Semantics Is The New Black

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

Every year around January time, the design/development community make a few predictions as to what will be the big thing for the upcoming year. Predictions range from popular colours, site types, font choices as well as more esoteric things such as concepts (AJAX was touted as the coming thing this year with some apparent justification) [...]

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IE7 Developer Beta Released

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

No, I haven’t got an MSDN acct so I can’t play with it. Bah.

However, I did download and look through the technical overview. The meat of it is in a section called ‘Platform Enhancements’.

First impressions are mixed. If you’re a reader of the IE Blog then there’s nothing new here at all. If you’re not [...]

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Comorbidity & Autism (aka Targetting Problems)

Monday, July 25th, 2005

Every so often I get emails (as well as blog comments) about my stance on a cure for autism. Here’s a fairly typical example (although its way more polite than most!):

You say it is find (sic) to be autistic and we should seek no cure.So you are happy with a child that smears faeces [...]

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The Importance Of Critical Thinking

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

Introduction

Over the last few days I’ve had a flurry of activity in the comments sections of some of my older posts regarding mercury and Rashid Buttar in particular. Most of the commenter’s believe that I am being very unfair to Dr Buttar and am not taking responsibility for my daughters biomedical needs (yes, that old [...]

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