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Syndicated from Freakcity, this is my other journal; see also <lj user=owenblacker> for my LJ.
Does it show I’m catching up on Knowledge Management emails?
How to do title tags accessibly (and, Scott, FreakCity would so not pass on that test 
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Good blog post at masl.to/?W1972295A . It’s by the maker of Fangs (possibly one of the coolest things ever: www.standards-schmandards.com/fangs) and explains about separating bits of a title tag. It also mentions the golden rule of title tags (which I am so fed up with having to explain everywhere):
If the title contains the name of the site, the name of the site should be placed at the end of the title. This makes sure that multiple bookmarks from the same site are easy to browse through in the bookmarks folder and listeners to your page get the most important information first.
Anyways. Back to reading…
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Wierd but cool
Interesting link just went round the office. Are you in my Monkeysphere?
*reads further*
And it’s REALLY funny. For some reason, my inner monolog has Lee (EnglishImpatient) reading it to me. 
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Sleeeeeeeepy
Not a massively interesting day. I hate it when I’m not in the middle of a large project. Today has mainly been spent reading stuff — useful, work-related stuff (like WCAG 2,0, for example), but hardly scintillating, nonetheless — and dealing with minor issues here and there (like the reluctance of a large client to install the .Net Framework v1,1 on their webserver, despite v1,0 being there already and the alternative being to keep using 3000 lines of flaky-as-hell ASP Classic and a hotfix for the MCMS Postback issue we experienced on Allied Domecq).
That’s quite an interesting one, actually. There’s a bug in hotfix #832348 for Microsoft Content Management Server, which means that some scripts will postback incorrectly. Rather than going to www.site.org/Folder/Template.aspx or to www.site.org/Channel/Posting.htm, it posts back to www.site.org/Channel/Template.aspx — the CMS pseudopath, mirroring the CMS Channel hierarchy, but with the Template ASPX’s filename. The combination doesn’t exist, so it 404s. Thankfully (grâce à Stefan Goßner at Microsoft), we have found out that hotfix #892474 resolves this issue, so we’ve just asked AT&T to test it with a view to rolling it out /stat/.
The odd bit of NO2ID mail over lunch, natch, we now have York City Council affiliated; and Streatham’s CLP voted against ID Cards last night at a meeting that Des Browne backed out of, rather cowardly, at the last minute, so Simon Davies (NO2ID Chair) pulled out too, postponing the tête-à-tête to another time, rather than having a one-sided debate that would weaken the significance of the vote.
Music at work isn’t too bad today, though the studio appears not to like Jay-Z vs Linkin Park very much. The Depeche Mode remix CDs seem to be going down well, though. And someone’s just set Rammstein playing, covering DM’s Stripped , which is rather odd (and very good). The Rush Hour compilations arrived from HMV.co.uk today (no branding on their packaging, très odd); I must learn not to watch adverts (or shop online) when stoned. They look quite good, though.
Anyways, I’m whittering, in a work-avoidance stylee, so I must off to work. Retro later, hopefully with Des there too: not seen him all week! And JenJen in my spare room… 
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The last Anatomy for Beginners was on tonight, too (missed ER during the Core Board meeting). I never realised that bladders contain so little (about 400mL, apparently) or that the uterus was quite so small. And it really does seem that ova just fly through empty space into the fallopian tubes. (I wonder how many ever miss?) And we certainly approved of the penis of the live model. The rest of him was rather pleasant, too.
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And now for bed
NO2ID Core Board meeting went well, though I’m frankly astonished to discover that apparently half the fringe-left (of which I would consider myself proudly a member) seems to think we’re a front for the SWP!
A front for the SWP?! They’ve obviously never read any of my posts to The List back when I was subbed. Or noticed that UKIP are affiliated. And various bits of the Greens. That’s the one thing I really hate about left-wing politics. If we weren’t all quite so bloody People’s Front of Judæa we’d accomplish so much more.
BBC’s Question Time from Croydon was scary. It didn’t help that Trevor Kavanagh was there (I laughed out loud when he claimed that The Sun try not to wax hyperbolic about immigration). The girl in red in the audience was dead right. I’m paraphrasing, but she “didn’t realise she lived around quite so many narrow minded, Daily Mail reading scumbags”. You go girl. And move North Of The River; you know it makes sense