Oh no! KLM and Air France deny iPod integration plans.

Apple® today announced it is teaming up with Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM and United to deliver the first seamless integration between iPod® and in-flight entertainment systems. These six airlines will begin offering their passengers iPod seat connections which power and charge th...

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Struggling to validate my CSS and XHTML earlier it occurred to me that once again I was up against the limits of my own ability faced with increasingly complicated machinery.

Time was, not all that long ago it seems, that I wrote books on a lovely Apple ][, pimped with external dual floppy drives...

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The Problem: I installed falbum, a plug-in for WordPress that displays photos from flickr within a WP blog. Installation was pretty smooth, although I had to edit the htaccess file by hand. Then I noticed that although the photos displayed very nicely on Safari, the pages looked complete crap in Firefox, Camino and IE.

It seemed obvious that the “bad” browsers were not loading falbum’s specific stylesheet. I later learned, on the TextDrive forum, that the calls to the CSS were receiving a 404 error, page not found, and barfing. For some reason, Safari did not barf, found the CSS and displayed perfectly.

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Rebecca sends me to What's special about this number, a total delight. And the first entry, under √-1,¹ reminds me that I meant to thank the BBC's In Our Time podcast on negative numbers, a few weeks back, for enlightening me about a road near where I live over in ScienceLand. Via. G. Cardano c...

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