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People keep complaining about HTML5's error handling. It looks like a lot of people believe that because the standard includes error handling, all content will be considered valid . This statement is wrong and repeating it doesn't make it true. Yet even Sir Tim Berners-Lee himself seems to express ...

Alex Brown, in ODF – OASIS and JTC 1 Get It Together , refers to those like me, who have been vocal in our disapproval of ISO’s handling of office-document standards, as the “tinfoil brigade” with a “crazed oppositional narrative”. He even provides an illustration of the use of a shiny ...

Michiko Kakutani reviews Malcolm Gladwell's latest book in the New York Times: “Much of what Mr. Gladwell has to say about superstars is little more than common sense: that talent alone is not enough to ensure success, that opportunity, hard work, timing and luck play important roles as well. Th ...

1983: Microsoft chief Bill Gates unveils the Windows operating system for PCs. Don't hold your breath waiting until you can buy a copy ... unless you can hold your breath for two years. Gates, Microsoft's president and board chairman, held an elaborate event at New York City's posh Helmsley Pal ...

Next to a hot cup of coffee, this simple recipe for a single serving of chocolate cake is the most delicious thing you can prepare using a mug and a microwave.