[A reminder that tonight is "enjoy some new music" night.
Every Thursday evening at Colleen's on Middletown Road in Nanuet, New York (just off route 59) the Burr Johnson Band plays some great music. There's no cover charge, and no minimum. Everything is reasonably priced. C'mon out. And if you're lucky, you'll catch me sittin' in with Burr.
It's time to support the little guys.]
[I was going to wait till the end... but what the heck. Here's Mark's ongoing testamony about the folks behind the need for accessibility. If you didn't believe him the first time, keep reading.]
[Reading about Lillian makes it crystal clear why ease of use is so important to the computer experience. Tie this in with what Dave said in his piece about XML. Computers are applied mathematics. And just as some pure mathematicians consider applied math a lessor endeavor, so did the computer people look down their collective nose at folks who didn't understand the intricacies. It often leads to products that assume the end user cares about things that they really couldn't care less about.
Accessability can be looked at in a narrow fashion -- helping people with less physical ability successfully use their computers, your app, or web site. But it can also be looked at as the desire to maximize the learning and study that goes into programming computers. Maximize those efforts while paying continuous attention to accessibility in the broadest sense and you will produce an end product that is so well conceived and implemented that it is accessible to everyone.] *
winterspeak.com. "Pricing Bandwidth Broadband providers are thinking about capping or metering customers, supposedly to stop freeloaders. But this is wrong, so let's go through the economics..."
Chuck Shotton's Logic Faults. "Thoughts about Web Services" [Bad things/Good things.]
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