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Well crap.

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on November 3, 2004 Posted in Politics No Comments

So if W wins the day, which looks inevitable at this point, what then? My worry is that the coalition of organizations that have come together in opposition of Bush in this last year have essentially “shot their wad.” What …

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Visit to Highgate

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on November 1, 2004 Posted in London 1 Comment

So yesterday we (the family) went to Highgate — which has a reputation of being a really nice and historical part of London that we’ve been living near but have never been to. Highgate itself was beautiful — village atmosphere …

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Photo: Caffé Mobi

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 29, 2004 Posted in Misc No Comments

This is a little coffee “Hut” on wheels thing that sits outside the Tube station here in East Finchley. They make a surprisingly good latte.

This Election Thing

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 28, 2004 Posted in Politics No Comments

Ok — This blog is not going to be predominantly political, because there are plenty of other blogs out there doing this (such as the highly recommended Shrillblog.) I will, however, say that I am really hoping we can kick …

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BBC NEWS | Magazine | The view from here

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 28, 2004 Posted in Politics No Comments

Good BBC News article today, capturing some of the American expat experience during the election.

Call for Ending Torture

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 28, 2004 Posted in Politics No Comments

With all the political partisanship in the air, it was refreshing to see this release from Amnesty International, admonishing both presidential candidates to condemn torture and abuse of human rights. We (the U.S.) are just not doing a good job …

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Eye – Key – Ahhh….

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 27, 2004 Posted in Misc No Comments

So a friend of mine from the States was surprised to hear that they have Ikea here in London. My sister is in St. Petersburg (Russia) this year getting her Master’s — and she reports that there is an Ikea …

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Compliant!

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 26, 2004 Posted in Blogs, W3C No Comments

Yes! This blog is now XHTML and CSS compliant. I find it doubly ironic that in order to do what I wanted to do (align images to the right in the posts) in this new “easier” way to publish on …

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Accessibility Schaccessibility

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 25, 2004 Posted in Blogs, W3C No Comments

So I’m fiddling around with the Blogger template, adding links and such, and I think to myself: “I wonder if this thing produces HTML that is at all accessible?” (As in conforms to the W3C’s accessibility guidelines.) So I test …

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Cup of Joe

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 25, 2004 Posted in Misc No Comments

There is nothing like a good hot cup of Joe. And this freeze-dried stuff I’m drinking is nothing like a good hot cup of Joe. What I wouldn’t give for a good old cup of American-style drip coffee.

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I'm an immigrant and US/UK dual national who has been living in London since 1999. I'm an advocate for emerging web technologies, the open web, open source and open data. I am co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group. I was a founder and co-organizer of the Over the Air hack day series and of Mobile Monday London. I'm a former .com CTO. I'm currently working at Snyk, leading open source and open standards work.

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