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I was speaking with a friend and he doubts that Bush won’t get re-elected because he believes that most of America is too happy with Bush. While I don’t entirely disagree about Bush’s re-election chances, I have to hope that my friend is “misunderestimating” the ability of the American public to see what’s going on, despite what FOX News might be saying (recent polls seem to some mixed signs).

To obtain an SSH fingerprint, run ‘ssh-keygen -l‘ on a .pub file. For more fingerprinting fun, see ssh-keyscan.

Mozilla.org has gottena a facelift to coincide with the formation of the Mozilla Foundation. Among the improvements, it’s now much easier to download.

Uwe Hermann has a useful vimrc

So, the Académie française’ has given a blessing for the official French equivalent of e-mail (courriel). Now, what are they going to call a ‘blog’?

(Apparently the big fuss about this whole thing is that the term originated from Quebec. The horror!)

R.I.P. Netscape

With the Mozilla Foundation (good) comes the bad of course. It was only a matter of time after the MS/AOL settlement, but it looks like Netscape is dead (Mozilla fortunately is alive and kicking). See also: ex-mozilla.org employee list

• MSDN: Measuring Element Dimension and Location
• Mozilla DOM Reference: Example 6: getComputedStyle (see Bug 32169 [fixed])
• Glazblog: document.getElementsByClass() – including funky XPath version; thanks Jesse

blogs:

• Holovaty.com – the guy behind the incredibly hip Lawrence Journal-World sites
• Dylan Schimann’s Blog
• Matrix Essays
• In Passing
• John R Chang’s Blog
• blog.shrub
• Slate (redesign post)

I’ve been working on a presentation (on USC’s Pubcookie roll-out), and as usual, have been getting sidetracked by the mechanics of the presentation (I’ve been testing it on Mozilla only; in theory it should mostly work in Safari and IE, maybe even Opera) and have been adding little DOM-based doo-dads and gee-gaws.

Last Spring I’d taken Tantek’s SXSW 2003 presentation and gave it a slight overhaul, adding key-events and anchor fragments (allowing slide bookmarking). Today, I’ve spent time futzing with some auto-resizing functionality that currently autoresizes iframes, but should will be adding something to auto-resize all slides tonight auto-resizes and adds scollbars to slides.

“Space” sickness OR “Mission: Space” scrubbed. Repeatedly. With disinfectant. – Jim Hill on Disney’s new Mission: Space ride.

BuzzMachine: AOL blogs (also blogged by an AOL employee)