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Håkon Wium Lie, or Howcome, is to many known as a CSS guru and one of the people who played a great part in making CSS a world-wide standard on the internet. Recently he defended his PhD thesis at the University of Oslo.

When the iMac was introduced to the market most computers were grey boxes that were kept out of sight. With the introduction of the iMac this was changed. But what does the i mean?

Google is moving forward with a speed rarely seen before. Their never-ending ability to conjure up successful web-services that no one even knew they needed is their strength. Is it all good?

Over the past year I’ve read more books than ever before, maybe more correct; I’ve bought more books than ever before. I’m reading books mainly because it helps me relax in an otherwise stressed day, but books are so much more than that.
Today, you can find almost anything you need, in terms of information, [...]

Comment spam, as mentioned earlier, turned into a real problem for this site. During a day more than 50 spam comments were held back for moderation. The solution? Our friend, the .htaccess-file

Not long ago, four weeks to be painstakingly accurate, I bought Mint. Odd as it may sound, but watching the various statistics that Mint, with some additional Peppers, collects is actually quite satisfying. It gives me a benchmark on how good my posts are, to a certain extent at least and I have a better [...]

The famous Kubrick theme’s predecessor, K2, is now ready for localization and I’ve made a Norwegian translation for it.

The distinction between URI and URL seems to be widespread and understandably so. Discussions on the internet describes different meanings, using different definitions of the acronyms and so on, so forth. In short, there is a lot of confusion.

The arguments for validation according to the W3C Markup Validation Service and the W3C specifications are many and strong. So why then doesn’t most sites validate?

Spam has never been a real problem on this site. I’m guessing it’s mainly to do with it’s popularity (or rather the lack of popularity), lately this has taken a change for the worse.