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New Hampshire Bill Would Abolish Marriage Licensing (Updated) (via Pileus)

Lord Ouroborus — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:52:59 +0000

Interesting political event. The idea that a state would give up licensing fees in order to stay out of social issues, specifically who can marry who and for what price…

To my knowledge, HB 569 is the first bill ever drafted and introduced in a legislature that would abolish government marriage licensing. The bill is the brainchild of libertarian Republican members of the New Hampshire state house. Currently, New Hampshire has same-sex marriage, but with the current Republican supermajority in both houses of the legislature, that policy is in serious jeopardy. The libertarian position on marriage is that it is a … Read More

via Pileus

Filed under: web 2.0

Apple wants to hand internet control to private monopoly – Really trying our patents: Nero sues MPEG-LA for anti-trust | TechEye

Lord Ouroborus — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:11:48 +0000

Apple wants to hand internet control to private monopoly – Really trying our patents: Nero sues MPEG-LA for anti-trust | TechEye.

A follow up to my earlier post about Apples potential problems if they go after VP8 codec and Google

Filed under: apple, Google, HTML5 Tagged: Anti-Trust, apple, Google, HTML, internet, patents, USDOJ, vp8

Apple may falter if they attack googles open vp8 codec

Lord Ouroborus — Sat, 22 May 2010 01:25:10 +0000

I can’t help but be concerned that Apple is setting itself up for some bad press akin to SCO attacking Linux. Apple has been championing open source and standards with HTML5 and attacking flash, but if they sue Google over vp8 video codec they will look like hypocrites who are only about their bottom line instead of truly caring about an open web. I sit in between Apple and Google. I love my MacBook, iPhone, AppleTV, but I use Gmail, picassa, and love to use Google’s Chrome browser. I would like to see the two companies compete peacefully and work together on other projects the way their engineers have been working on HTML5. I can kinda see how Jobs would be upset over Android, but this is America and it’s built on competition. Did Google overstep it’s trust with Apple with it’s executive on Apples board? Yes. But Americans want choices, if Android gives Apple the impetance to make iPhone better faster well I’m all for it. Cause as much as I love my iPhone I want more functionality from it and fast. I also want Googles goggles app on my phone. I’m hopeful that Apples purchase of Siri will improve iPhones functionality, but the iPhone is capable of so much more.

Filed under: apple, Google, HTML5 Tagged: apple, codec, Google, HTML, open source, video, vp8

WordPress iPhone App Gets Geotagging

Lord Ouroborus — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:42:48 +0000

WordPress iPhone App Gets Geotagging.

You cant enable this from the iPhone application but its easy to do in your profile settings.

Filed under: iphone apps, wordpress Tagged: iphone, iphone apps, webmaster tools, wordpress

Using MAMP & WordPress to develop locally on my Mac

Lord Ouroborus — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:39:53 +0000

Well this has been a learning experience. I had been wanting to play with WordPress locally cause I have realized its potential for allowing faster development of sites for clients. Right now Im developing an update for a Realtor’s website that was originally built with Microsoft Tools in the late 90s. Its been great using WordPress to add new pages quickly and drop in code. One of the pages had a Mortgage Calculator which obviously I had to replace the MS spagetti code so I found a great free code snippet and dropped it into the Mortgage page along with another snippet that displays the rates for the past two weeks.

Probably the most difficult thing has been trying to understand how to make changes to the .php pages and .CSS that came with the theme I selected. I have it kind of figured out now and its getting easier. Its just a bit frustrating to be so easily overwhelmed by the shear amount of information one must wade through to learn how to do a seemingly simple task.

(More to come as the project progresses)

Filed under: wordpress Tagged: CSS, customization, learning, webmaster tools, wordpress

10+ useful code snippets to develop iPhone friendly websites

Lord Ouroborus — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:23:24 +0000

10+ useful code snippets to develop iPhone friendly websites.

Filed under: how to's, iphone apps Tagged: iphone, web 2.0, webmaster tools, website optimization

Pendule – Google Chrome extension gallery

Lord Ouroborus — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:29:31 +0000

Pendule – Google Chrome extension gallery.

Filed under: Google, HTML5, HTTP Tagged: customization, Google, Google Chrome, learning, webmaster tools, website optimization

Why Web Developers Should Switch to Google Chrome – Nettuts+

Lord Ouroborus — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:23:48 +0000

Why Web Developers Should Switch to Google Chrome – Nettuts+.

This is a great research piece and explains a great deal about what Google engineers have done with WebKit. It also lists some cool developer tool plugins for Chrome that Im sure I can find a use for.

Filed under: Google, HTML5, HTTP, web 2.0 Tagged: blogging, Google, Google Chrome, HTML, web 2.0, website optimization

wordpress ecommerce plugin and framework

Lord Ouroborus — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:43:17 +0000

wordpress ecommerce plugin and framework.

Home of the famous WordPress e-Commerce Plugin

The free bolt on e-Commerce Plugin is WordPress framework designed to help you sell online. We make setting up shop incredibly easy. Plus we’ve had over 500,000 downloads!

Filed under: HTTP, wordpress Tagged: ecommerce, HTML, plugin, wordpress

CSS3 + Progressive Enhancement = Smart Design • Perishable Press

Lord Ouroborus — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:55:47 +0000

CSS3 + Progressive Enhancement = Smart Design • Perishable Press.

Posted in web 2.0 Tagged: CSS, customization, howto, learning, web 2.0, web evolution, webmaster tools