The whiteboard marker makes him look fuzzy – and that is good.

This is just another reason why everybody needs an iPhone, but I guess I’m still ‘cool’, because I’m commenting using my Nokia 3310. Uh.

Simple scenario: You do something you know you’re not supposed to do, but you do it anyway, because in the end – things usually work out. Right? Of course it does. Whenever you bump your knee Mommy will kiss it better and a few minutes later you forget all about the boo boo.

Now we’re all grown up and of course we can do whatever we want, because when something goes wrong or hurts, we’ll just kiss it better and it’ll go away.

Hello. Time to wake up.

Kissing it better and praying is probably the same thing. I’ve kissed it better and I’ve prayed. Kissing it better doesn’t always work. Praying however does in a way, because it if it’s a case of something that’s bothering me, I just get it out of my head (for now). It’s like writing something in that Moleskine, so that you won’t forget it and can go back to it at a later stage – then deal with it.

Which is just another looney thing I’ve done before, if something bugs me I have to get it out. Talk about it, scream like a mad person while the music’s blasting in the car, writing things down, making lists, talking to myself… or “praying”. Who do I pray to? I don’t know, probably the another part of myself. Now I’m going way off track. Too much info. Smh!

What I’m trying to say is that if someone wants to believe in a god and if they believe in prayer, fine. Do that if that’s your thing. But please do not think that you can “hand it over” and then it’ll all be okay. Forgetting about a so-called problem does not make it go away.

Sadly that’s how most people think about things. If you ignore something it will eventually go away.

Ignorance is the state in which one lacks knowledge. Educate yourself and in most cases, just grow up already.

Sadface.

P.S. I can write an essay about prayer, what I think prayer really is and why your prayers are sometimes answered and… but that’s another topic for another day and has nothing to do with what I mentioned above.

To be continued.

This would create the ability to allow people in the field to have a say in what CSS, HTML, JavaScript and the like should work and look like. The W3C as we know is influenced heavily by the browser companies etc. and I think this model may work better.

I don’t agree with point 3 in that I think legacy helps the case in finding a pattern. However I do understand what you mean though.

Creating it like this means there is always a latest version, and it would be I guess up to the browser companies to maintain their browsers inline with the standards. Or conversly they could expose the core API as mentioned allowing the same community to update and maintain the same standard in the each respective browser.

Meaning then that the standard would actually then be the api specification and implementation guide no?

(1) You do it upfront, and everyone (or at least a large portion of everyone) agrees to follow it.

(2) You have a body that can certify the standard.

(3) You don’t have a lot of legacy to contend with.

W3C fails all of these criteria, and hence struggles as a standard. The web. like language or religion, is an organic thing, and trying to pretend that a group of fundamentalists getting together and saying that everyone should observe W3C makes a standard is like trying to pretend that there is one correct way of speaking English or following God.

For an excellent article on the subject, see: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17.html. It also gives you a good reason why IE8 is such an f-up. Gotta go – need coffee.