Feast for Geeks [en]

A few nice geeky links on the menu for today.

First, Web Standards Project II is live. Check the updated Browser Upgrade Initiative page, and see what the Dreamweaver Task Force has been up to. Stroll around the rest of the site too, there is lots of new stuff hidden everywhere.

Second, the definitive study on sizing text with CSS. See how all these browsers react to your attempts to control the size of your text (screenshots, 264 of them).

Third (and last for today), the CSS1 recommendation, annotated with relevant Mozilla bugs. Yay!

Jewish but not Zionist [en]

What people don’t understand is that you can be Jewish without being Zionist. You can be Jewish without approving of the politics of Israel. And that is the position most of us find ourselves in.

She said this a few months ago, and I’ve been wanting to make a note of it ever since.

It struck me as very important to remember—especially as I find myself guilty of abusive generalisations from time to time. I just hadn’t thought of this issue in those terms before that. Not that it didn’t make perfect sense once it was said, of course.

International School of Lausanne aka Commonwealth American School [en]

I spent an enjoyable afternoon yesterday, attending the 40th anniversary celebration of the International School of Lausanne (which went under the name “Commonwealth American School” when I was a student there).

If you were a student at the ISL/CAS, or know anybody who was, please fill in their alumni page. The school has also signed up with three alumni sites (I got lost in the first somewhere in the registration process, but the two others were ok.)

Traduction de iStockphoto.com [en]

Le site iStockphoto.com cherche des personnes intéressées à  le traduire en français. Envoyer un e-mail à  Bitter pour en discuter si vous êtes intéressé!

Get a New Browser! [en]

Mozilla 1.0 is out. Run and get it!

Tip: if the Mozilla download page confuses you, scroll down a bit until you see “Mozilla 1.0 – Released June 5, 2002”. Then click the link corresponding to your operating system in the grey box. Save the file to your desktop (or anywhere handy), then double-click to install.

News [en]

Two news nuggets today, to read together. Both pointed out to by Rebecca ([1] and [2]).

  1. Foreign vs. American news sources: British Take a Blunter Approach to War News.
  2. The world suffers from over-simplification more than too much complexity: A call for perceptiveness.

Votations [en]

J’ai voté le week-end dernier pour la première fois depuis très longtemps. La raison? Le canton de Vaud a enfin adopté un système de vote par correspondance simple et efficace.

L’enveloppe qui nous parvient avant chaque votation a été légèrement modifiée: elle s’ouvre comme un paquet de corn-flakes, de façon à  être réutilisable; elle contient une carte de vote à  dater et signer, ainsi qu’une enveloppe et les bulletins de vote. Remplir les bulletins, les glisser dans la petite enveloppe, signer sa carte de vote, glisser le tout dans la grande enveloppe qui repart direction l’urne. Hop, le tour est joué! Plus d’excuse, maintenant.

Bilan des votations: l’avortement ne sera pas illégal en Suisse (ouf!), les fonctionnaires ne seront plus nommés (pauvres profs—mais bon, faudra encore voir ce que ça donne en pratique), les députés ne seront pas indemnisés plus que nécessaire, et les cantons de Vaud et de Genève ne fusionneront pas.

Oui, on peut me reprocher la qualité de mes sources journalistiques. J’ai bien peur d’être mariée à  24 Heures pendant quelque temps encore.

Identity Confusion in Blogland? [en]

Nithia sums it up: Gary Turner seems to be saying that Mike Sanders is in fact Mike Golby. Funny that I just mentioned Kaycee in my previous post—though IMHO, there is much less to worry about here.

If you feel concerned by alcoholism or co-dependance, you’ll probably find Mike Golby’s last posts very readable.