Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Joined March 2008
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@KuraFire 8-02-11 was February 11 in 8 A.D., that is, 2003 years and almost 6 months ago.
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On days like this, I listen to is.gd/vIHNHy before going to sleep.
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Dare I ask why debt ceiling bill is "S. 365: An original bill to make a technical amendment to the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002"?
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@LeaVerou Getting bottled water instead of tap happens so often in Europe, almost never in the US.
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@glazou Yeah, terminal N is only slightly better: Starbucks, Burger King, or (my choice, and most popular) sandwiches on bagels.
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@tieguy @johnolilly I feel the recent surge in craziness is all on one side (R), so I'm happy to keep voting D, despite imperfections.
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@johnolilly An independent taking what positions?
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Mozilla might get a tax refund for my trip to the @csswg meeting, since the government let the airfare tax *expire*. http://nyti.ms/pUllCi
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New @netflix prices mean I'll probably switch back to DVD-only. The limited selection of their streaming isn't worth the new price.
OS X 10.7 Lion makes a font API Firefox uses crashy. Aurora now uses new API. Please test. Hope we won't need to disable downloadable fonts.
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@beltzner Could be worse; see infrastructurist.com/2010/12… (and perhaps also washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co… ) for DC Metro's problems
@roessler So now it's purely a US/UK difference in comma usage?
@bz_moz A common problem in standardization is people proposing solutions without stating the problem they're solving.
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@getify Explaining to users why *they* should care about overall progress is hard (risk of tragedy of the commons too)
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...but each feature or schedule request ("enterprise" or not) should be evaluated on its merits (and relative to alternatives).
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