BBC NEWS | Magazine | The view from here
Good BBC News article today, capturing some of the American expat experience during the election.
Call for Ending Torture
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 …
Eye – Key – Ahhh….
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 …
Compliant!
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 …
Accessibility Schaccessibility
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 …
Cup of Joe
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.
Homepage
Doesn’t anyone have “home pages” any more? Whatever happened to “home pages?” Whatever happened to finger files, for that matter? You know — time was that you could find out about anyone on the internet by typing (yes typing) a …
Heck I’ll try anything once.
So I’ve finally decided to start a blog. I must be the last person on Earth. I think there are tribesmen somewhere in the Amazon Rain-forest that are already blogging away. It’s ironic, because I was one of the first …