I’ve got a back log of links that I want rid of, so I’ll dump them here. They all do exactly what they say on the tin:

• Group Typography – Creating a font based on multiple users ideas of what letters should look like,
• Worst Jobs In Science,
• XSLT Questions And Answers,
• PEAR Primer,
• Mind World Map – Users decide what the world map should look like. It’s starting to take real shape, if only more detail was allowed.

Don’t know how many of them are worth reading.

It be International Talk Like A Pirate Day (via Kryogenix! So be grabbing some grog, ye scurvy bilge rats, while I do a jaunty jig.

You make a plan, a plan in your head, and assume that’s how things are going to happen. They won’t.

Maybe you thought you were going to the cinema for a movie and a quiet night, but somehow you end up with a group of friends you haven’t seen in a while, drinking and chatting until the quiet hours eventually arrive.

Maybe you thought you were going to see an old friend at a certain place at a certain time, but he doesn’t show up in the three hours you wait (with others).

Maybe you really thought you were finished, but you know you’re not.

Plans change, nothing is concrete, people are unpredictable. This is not a bad thing. Life should be about the unexpected.

Maybe you should plan for the unexpected, but you’re probably planning yourself into a corner.

It’s always great when I can shape a random links post into some sort of tenacious collection. This time it’s language:

• Scrambling Words – If you scramble letters in a word (leaving the first and last letter the same), you can still read sentences full of garbled text. An odd bit of pattern matching on behalf of the brain. Via Aquarionics.
• The Shizzolator – Shizzles up any site. Not particularly effective on this site. However, a few random bits get through, making it funny enough.
• Tim Bray has cracked – He’s suggesting that we use “read” and “readd” to tighten up the English language a bit. Reminds me of Mark Twain’s improvements.

Like I said, tenacious… That’s all for today.

Time for another round of fighting with XHTML, accessibility and the like.

First, I now provide a custom id on the root (html) rather than on the body, for those browsers that I send the site to as real XHTML (Opera, Mozilla, etc). Other browsers still get it on the body.

Also, given the recent findings about screen readers, I’ve changed my skiplink CSS as appropriate. I wanted to use Tom Gilder’s skiplink method, but it refused to work with my site. I’ve gone for a more basic version, and will come back to the problem at a later date.

Finally, one thing I’ve yet to implement is marking up all instances of acronyms. Jacques is offering some excellent advice on that page that I intend to follow. But not yet, I’ve had enough of looking at code for one day.