Foltzwerk

I created this HDR image from photos I took while hiking on Cowles mountain early one morning not far from the 3/4 mile marker. The view is facing southwest and if the marine layer wasn’t there you would be able to see Coronado, downtown San Diego, and Point Loma. I didn’t have my tripod with me and since HDR reqires multiple exposures I had to lay on top of this rock to keep the images as aligned.

Today my friend Todd emailed me a link to the NETGEAR Skype Phone. I vaguely recall reading about the concept of wifi mobile phones but this is the first I’ve heard of something materializing.

This device could work great in cities with public Wi-Fi coverage. Especially for traveling abroad. I imagine it being more practical around the home on one’s personal wireless network. Depending on the cost the savings potential is huge for a person making frequent international calls. In the mean time I’ll stick with my Packet8 internet phone (Voice over Internet Protocol).

Ye Olde Browser Archive is an excellent resource if you ever need to QA your work in an older browser, you’ll find it there. It also reminds me back to a time when tables and font tags ruled. I’m glad times have changed.

As posted at The Web Standards Project. Target is being sued by the National Federation for the Bline for not making their site accessible. Accessibility is really quite easy and inexpensive if you simply commit up front to adhering to reasonable accessibility standards. The argument that it is too expensive just doesn’t fly anymore. Granted, if you built a large scale site with no intention of supporting accessibility a retrofit could cause a budget overrun. When you consider that SEO is an integral part of any marketing strategy and that search engines are essentialy “blind” users the resistance to accessibility simply doesn’t make any business sense.

“The US National Federation of the Blind (NFB) has brought legal action against Target corporation (a major US-based discount retailer which operates more than 1,300 stores in 47 states) because their web site is not accessible. The NFB has raised the issue with Target Corporation before…”