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I Have a Really Big ‘m’
Contemporary wisdom says that we should use the relative unit ‘em‘ for most, if not all, element measurements in web design. So, how big is an ‘em’? I set up a small experiment to tell me just that.
No Firefox 9 for Ubuntu!
Update: Apparently, this was all an error. When I use Ubuntu’s package manager, all I get is Firefox version 8, but I checked Ubuntu’s original repository (archive.ubuntu.com) and they have version 9… it’s time for me to change mirrors Thanks … Continue reading
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Problems with Patent and Copyright Law
The term patent usually refers to an exclusive right granted to anyone who invents any new, useful, and non-obvious process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, and claims that right in … Continue reading
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