the german friday

I have been a little busy. I am done working for the year and decided to take some time to catch up. I really liked these photos.

I have a ton of other photos on my Flickr feed. Enjoy!

This is exciting news. I didn’t think there was anywhere else for HTML to go. I had read a while back that HTML would be developed no further. XHTML came along several years ago and solved some of the oddball, dead end issues with HTML. And then this. This answers a big question that I have. What is right and wrong when it comes to semantic markup. I didn’t know. Now I guess we do accepted semantic conventions will be put in place for everyone to follow. Also the functional placement tags will be much simpler. This is years off, but it gives the front end developers of the world something to look forward to. Yay!

I recently designed and built a site for an alternative Energy company in Texas. Element Markets helps companies abide by current emissions legislation, as well as manage the development of private land to produce alternative energy. Really interesting business once I got my head around how broad their footprint is in this area. It opened my eyes to what legislation exists to protect the environment and how loosely the system that controls this legislation is. Anyway, I am especially proud of this site because since I started building websites with standards, this is the first one I built with the XHTML 1.0 Strict Doctype. Riveting.

Nikki sent me this photo a little while ago and I think it is awesome. That’s Nikki on the left and her grandfather, Edward David, on the right. Her grandfather is having a rough way to go healthwise right now, and it is great to look back at these photos and see him when he was young and strong.

I am so addicted to this show. It’s a little creepy that I fit the profile of a serial killer. White male, mid-thirties, neat, quiet, keep to myself. Makes you wonder huh? So much so that I won’t read my Dexter book on my lunch hour at work for fear of getting my co-workers talking.