While debugging some apps today, hence, waiting for about 30 minutes to let one of my workstations execute such apps, I decided to check Microsoft’s homepage, and then I jumped into the code… I noticed that they had the following line of code:

The lack of this infamous line, made the homepage fail the W3C.org validation tool for the longest time… I don’t remember that they had ever achieved this tiny milestone!

The line was there, I knew it was a longshot… then I tried to validate the URL…

To my surprise, it worked!!!

I don’t know for how long has this been like that, and after them releasing a IE 7 Beta available only to MSDN members, I had lost a lot of trust on these guys. A lot of web developers/designers feel the same way, I believe.

However, knowing how hard it is to achieve the W3C validation, I must admit that they had to work very hard to get rid of their so-many proprietary HTML tags.

Hats off… err… wait… nevermind… If you dig into any other page within their website, you can tell that the layout changes, ergo, flunks the validation. =)

ay ay ay…

Through kottke.org I learned that Google is opening it’s Gmail signup through SMS.

Before, you couldn’t get Gmail unless you got an invitation from someone that already had Gmail, and so on…

Now you can enjoy their 2.5+ Gigabytes, POP, SMTP, and great spam filters by sending an SMS message to your phone from the page they set up.

Cool eh??

I just found out that you can now post from Microsoft Word to Blogger!

Ouch! that must have hurt. =)

I was saddened to read that Robert Moog died this last weekend, due to a brain tumor.

I don’t think we have any idea of how much music involves ‘The Moog’ synthesizer. But we sure know the impact he had on contemporary music.

He will be missed.

The living room is ready, the bedroom is ready.

Last night, Beki joined the painting workforce! She’ll be in charge of painting one of the bathrooms.

My dad… if he had gone to Mexico… We’d be in big big trouble.

Thanks to everyone helping us with our home.

We’ll get connectivity (cable and internet) tomorrow morning, and right after that… We’ll start moving in!!!

=)