After getting a little bit more into the microdata after mentioning microformats it seems to be a lot more complex. There is RDFa as well as schema.org which apparently MS, google and yahoo want people to move it. Seems like it will provide a lot of control, but for this blog, it seems like it won't be needed.
The changes that I have made I think that I'll back out and work on seeing if I can instead just move this into a html5 presentation. I figure that with just the core tags, without needing to use the itemtype attributes, I'll be able to express the blog in a more semantic way.
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Thursday, 21 July 2011
Microformats
Today one of the things that came up was microformats. When I think of html I don't think "machine readable". Turns out I'm wrong. I didn't think that by just adding some css classes in sort-of a structured way you could create info that was reusable. I assumed that you'd have to set up another view (xml, json, ical, etc).
Turns out that's how you can have a google recipe search and how google can show you (from its search page) customer reviews (4 out of 5 stars). From a website owner I can see the appeal since they have to tweak the markup that they already provide. From consumers of that markup (google, etc) it's good because its more likely the data the users are being show is the same that's being shown to you.
I started adding some span's, css classes, and other containers to the index page to line up with the hAtom 0.1 format. I'll continue to update it since the page neither validates "properly" or using the Rich Snippets Testing Tool from google. More work can be done, but interesting none the less.
Aside: if you ever need to find the ISO 8601 date format for perl, it's "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S". Via dzone.
Turns out that's how you can have a google recipe search and how google can show you (from its search page) customer reviews (4 out of 5 stars). From a website owner I can see the appeal since they have to tweak the markup that they already provide. From consumers of that markup (google, etc) it's good because its more likely the data the users are being show is the same that's being shown to you.
I started adding some span's, css classes, and other containers to the index page to line up with the hAtom 0.1 format. I'll continue to update it since the page neither validates "properly" or using the Rich Snippets Testing Tool from google. More work can be done, but interesting none the less.
Aside: if you ever need to find the ISO 8601 date format for perl, it's "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S". Via dzone.
Monday, 18 July 2011
Vasovagal
Yesterday I had what might have been called in older times "an episode". Laura calls me "vasovagal" which is fancy doctor speak for "fainting". So far I think that I've had 5 vasovagal responses: 1) when I tried to put in contact lenses for the first time 2) when we got to Barcelona from the over night train from Paris. 3) At Laura's parent's place once 4) When I was having some blood taken for insurance for the house 5) last night at dinner.
I think that in all cases it was at the start or right before a meal, and I was probably a bit dehydrated for them all. Last night was one of the worse ones. I felt my eyes rolling back like I was falling asleep and I started to nudge Laura to get her attention. The third time I was finally able to and she and my dad helped me to the car. There is no way that I could walk on my own and probably not with just Laura's help. They reclined the passenger seat and waited for some of my blood to decide to visit my brain again. Not fun. I was actually scared at one point because my left arm was tingling but I figured it was because how I had my arm on the rest and it was cutting off the flow to that limb as well.
Needless to say I'm staying at home today and trying to fully recover. To top it off I'm fighting off a cold. *sigh* Even though people tell me that I've lost my mind, I still think that my body will fail long before my mind does. This is why we should be building cybernetic replacement parts. But that's a different post for a different time.
I think that in all cases it was at the start or right before a meal, and I was probably a bit dehydrated for them all. Last night was one of the worse ones. I felt my eyes rolling back like I was falling asleep and I started to nudge Laura to get her attention. The third time I was finally able to and she and my dad helped me to the car. There is no way that I could walk on my own and probably not with just Laura's help. They reclined the passenger seat and waited for some of my blood to decide to visit my brain again. Not fun. I was actually scared at one point because my left arm was tingling but I figured it was because how I had my arm on the rest and it was cutting off the flow to that limb as well.
Needless to say I'm staying at home today and trying to fully recover. To top it off I'm fighting off a cold. *sigh* Even though people tell me that I've lost my mind, I still think that my body will fail long before my mind does. This is why we should be building cybernetic replacement parts. But that's a different post for a different time.
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
Kick in the ...
Today is the first day that I can actually say that I've felt our baby girl that we're expecting at the end of November kick / punch. To say that I'm excited and scared would be an understatement - if she can kick like that when she's 300g, what will she do when she's 13 kg.
Someone today asked if I felt "ready". I laughed. I'm not sure that anyone can ever be "ready" to have a baby, not really anyways. I can say that I'm ready to have everything turned upside down. I was once told that what I don't know would fill libraries. This new chapter in our lives will make one of those libraries a tiny bit smaller, and hopefully I won't screw up too bad. When it all comes down to it, I think that's every parent's prayer.
So baby, if one day you're reading this on your neural interfaced holographic augmented reality, please forgive the mistakes that I've done.
Someone today asked if I felt "ready". I laughed. I'm not sure that anyone can ever be "ready" to have a baby, not really anyways. I can say that I'm ready to have everything turned upside down. I was once told that what I don't know would fill libraries. This new chapter in our lives will make one of those libraries a tiny bit smaller, and hopefully I won't screw up too bad. When it all comes down to it, I think that's every parent's prayer.
So baby, if one day you're reading this on your neural interfaced holographic augmented reality, please forgive the mistakes that I've done.
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