Category Archives: General

Acer technical support phone number

Posted on November 15, 2007 by David Megginson

For North America, it’s 1-800-816-2237. The phone number is not available anywhere on Acer’s support sites (supposedly, it’s hidden somewhere in the Windows XP control panel, but you can’t get that with a broken computer), so I thought a nice, … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu gutsy is about to mess up

Posted on September 17, 2007 by David Megginson

Ubuntu — my favorite distro of my favorite OS — is about to mess up. The next official release, Gutsy Gibbon, is scheduled for release in a month. In an attempt to out-cool Vista and OSX, they’re switching over to … Continue reading →

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A Victorian British artilleryman blogs

Posted on June 29, 2007 by David Megginson

Gunner William Henry Ranson (born 1843) has started a blog about his life in the ranks of Royal Artillery and as a civilian in Canada right after Confederation: http://whranson.blogspot.com/ Gunner Ranson was my great-great-grandfather. After serving in the Royal Artillery … Continue reading →

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Thinking about structure

Posted on January 28, 2007 by David Megginson

Douglas Crockford left an excellent comment on my recent posting All markup ends up looking like XML, which he later made into its own blog posting, For the trees. I agree with his reworking of the structure: given the data … Continue reading →

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All markup ends up looking like XML

Posted on January 3, 2007 by David Megginson

In the current JSON vs. XML debate (see Bray, Winer, Box, Obasanjo, and many others), there are three things that important to understand: There is no information that can be represented in an XML document that cannot be represented in … Continue reading →

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XML 2006 proceedings due today

Posted on December 18, 2006 by David Megginson

If you gave a regular presentation at XML 2006, I’d like to remind you that your proceedings — slides and or text — are due today (PDF or XHTML format, please). If you gave a keynote or participated in a … Continue reading →

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Newmatica Barcode: privacy policy

Posted on October 10, 2006 by David Megginson

[Update: Newmatica is closed.] Thank you to those of you who have visited and used my new consumer-product-discussion site, Newmatica Barcode, since I announced it on Friday. I had an exciting Canadian Thanksgiving weekend dealing with all the bug reports … Continue reading →

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MacOS X vs. Ubuntu Linux

Posted on June 29, 2006 by David Megginson

[Update: Tim O’Reilly writes that not only Apple but Red Hat should be worried about Ubuntu.] We bought our older daughter a cheap used ThinkPad as a grade 8 graduation present, and I installed Ubuntu Linux on it for her. … Continue reading →

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Giving thanks

Posted on May 15, 2006 by David Megginson

Over on XML.com, David Peterson gives Microsoft some well-deserved thanks for implementing and popularizing the XMLHttpRequest object that’s so useful in modern web development. He also thanks them for not charging for it, but of course, if they had tried … Continue reading →

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Mobile Web at XTech

Posted on May 10, 2006 by David Megginson

Michael Smith has a short post about the Mobile Web Morning at XTech 2006 next week in Amsterdam. I’ve been excited about the mobile web for a long time — granted, it’s been slow taking off, but with mobile phones … Continue reading →