Fun with technical support and web standards

Here's an email exchange I recently had:

Hello- I saw the link to your service today on Slashdot. I'm interested in your photo books, yet I don't have a Windows machine. Are you planning to support firefox anytime soon. If so, you will probably have a new customer. thanks matt …

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MochiKit DOM helper script

So, I've been trying out MochiKit. The stuff I've done so far seems very straightforward and also functional (as in lispy). Hopefully I'll have something to show for it soon. In the meantime, I've created a python script (read hack complete with unit tests) for converting well formed html to …

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Inkscape and Xara (an example of competion)

The recently open sourced (dual licensed ala mySQL) Xara project is interesting. Their FAQ is very frank and straightforward. I like it. The program itself appears to be a combination of vector and bitmap manipulation utilities.

One aspect that I find interesting is that the Xara folks aparently were in …

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Ajax explosion

With OpenOffice 3.0 (the AJAX edition) in the works, I thought I'd join the bandwagon and do a little more with AJAX. So I have a dilemma. Much like in the python world (where it is really easy to implement what you want) where there exists many slightly different …

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New release of SAM (Spike Asset Manager)

An update of a project I work on, SAM (Spike Asset Manager) has been released. The major focus of the recent 0.21 release has been to up the number of components it looks for. It now finds 274 common Open Source components.

From the homepage:

Spike Asset Manager (SAM …

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Open Source Mountain Biking

This past weekend I was able to go on a very nice bike ride at Soquel Demonstration Forest. Braille trail is quite nice, and something that makes it pretty unique among most mountain biking trails is that this trail evolves. The half dozen times I've ridden it, it has been …

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Using the Samsung ML-2010 laser printer with Linux

Our 5 year old inkjet printer has been making loud annoying noises and refusing to print midway through a page. So this last weekend I decided to replace it with a laser printer (we only really used color for printing photos, and since 1hour kiosks are common and cheap at …

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I have an issue with foocamp...

I have an issue with Foocamp, and it isn't because I (unlike some of my co-workers) wasn't invited. For that matter I have the same issue with Barcamp (which I may have attended if I wasn't out of state on vacation floating down the Snake River in Wyoming during that …

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