{"id":11,"date":"2004-07-06T09:32:59","date_gmt":"2004-07-06T09:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2004\/07\/a-whole-new-blog"},"modified":"2006-04-30T23:55:29","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T23:55:29","slug":"whole-new-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2004\/07\/whole-new-blog","title":{"rendered":"A Whole New Blog!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I decided that it would be worth while for me to create a seperate blog from <a href=\"\/blogs\/nettwits\/\">Net Twits<\/a> where I can post items related to more general events, web development and other things.  Net Twits will remain, and I will continue to post to it, however it will be entirely dedicated to <em>Twits<\/em>!<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>So, for my first post to this new blog, I&#8217;m happy to report that the construction of <a href=\"\/\">my website<\/a> is coming along nicely.  The stylesheet is taking longer than I would hope to create, however I&#8217;ve just been so busy with other jobs, such as rebuilding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefarmshed.com.au\/\">The Farmshed<\/a> website.  That&#8217;s the company I work for \u2014 the current site is quite awful, but after the rebuild, due for completion in October, it will, hopefully, be standards compliant and should at least <a href=\"http:\/\/validator.w3.org\/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thefarmshed.com.au%2F\">validate<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Other than work, I&#8217;ve been keeping up with the latest developments with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatwg.org\/\"><acronym title=\"Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group\">WHATWG<\/acronym><\/a> (as some would prefer to call a Task Force because of the better acronym: <acronym title=\"WHAT The F\u2026\">WHATTF<\/acronym>), though I&#8217;m still somewhat undecided as to whether this is a good thing for the web.  One thing I&#8217;m sure about is that I most certainly <strong>do not<\/strong> agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hixie.ch\">Ian Hickson<\/a> (<acronym title=\"also known as\">aka.<\/acronym> Hixie) that new markup languages should be <a href=\"http:\/\/ln.hixie.ch\/?start=1085764602&amp;count=1\">backwards compatible<\/a> with <acronym title=\"Internet Explorer\">IE<\/acronym>, but as far as Hixie is concerned, that&#8217;s very important for any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatwg.org\/specs\/\">new language<\/a> to at least stand a chance of being successful.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently, I decided that it would be worth while for me to create a seperate blog from Net Twits where I can post items related to more general events, web development and other things. Net Twits will remain, and I will continue to post to it, however it will be entirely dedicated to Twits! So, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2004\/07\/whole-new-blog\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Whole New Blog!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}