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Three Keyboard Cat Moon t-shirt.

Adobe, despite all the things they’d like you to think they believe in, hold up the current HTML5 draft due to an objection that they won’t even raise in public.

Update: Apparently, Ian Hickson, the man behind the charges and a HTML5 specification editor, was mistaken. The objection was subsequently raised in public, and despite being referred to as such by Adobe’s representative in a chat log, it turns out that it wasn’t the sort of public objection available to members like Adobe that would block continued work on the draft.

I regret calling Adobe assholes over this. I’m sorry. I don’t regret calling Adobe assholes over other things, but that’s another subject.

Soldier of Love, Sade

I’ll keep this brief.

1. It’s Lovers Rock II with a deeper voice.
2. There’s nothing wrong with that whatsoever.

One of the things I hate about Gmail is that it tries to leverage synergies. Not across the enterprise, mind you, but always across my address book. The address book that it stuck everyone you ever exchanged emails with on. The address book that suddenly saw your stupid status messages and cluttered your buddy list. And now the address book that automatically hooks together everyone’s intertubular facetweets into one big list and sticks it in your face. It’s very involved to opt-out of any of those things, and while I understand that that may be good for the adoption of those features, it may not in fact be good for, you know, my efficiency. Style of working and organizing. Blood pressure. Happiness.

Some people play tennis. The Gmail team erodes the human comfort zone.