datuk’s ramblings

I know you think that I shouldn’t still love you,
Or tell you that.
But if I didn’t say it, well I’d still have felt it
where’s the sense in that?

I promise I’m not trying to make your life harder
Or return to where we were

I will go down with this ship
And I won’t put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I’m in love and always will be

I know I left too much mess and
destruction to come back again
And I caused nothing but trouble
I understand if you can’t talk to me again
And if you live by the rules of “it’s over”
then I’m sure that that makes sense

I will go down with this ship
And I won’t put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I’m in love and always will be

And when we meet
Which I’m sure we will
All that was there
Will be there still
I’ll let it pass
And hold my tongue
And you will think
That I’ve moved on….

I will go down with this ship
And I won’t put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I’m in love and always will be

I will go down with this ship
And I won’t put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I’m in love and always will be

I will go down with this ship
And I won’t put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I’m in love and always will be

Today or Friday, the House of Representatives will be debating and voting on proposed Net Neutrality amendments to the Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act of 2006, a bill that will grant sweeping powers to telecommunications and cable companies to set up a tollbooth Internet.

Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), who chairs the Committee on Energy and Commerce, has pushed to pass the bill as-is, without any type of legislative guarantee to bar telco and cable giants from charging fees to the highest bidder for faster delivery of content. Rep. Barton has repeatedly tried to block Net Neutrality legislation and has vowed to continue to do so, arguing from the pockets of his contributors.

Net Neutrality advocates charge this policy would be discriminatory, effectively blocking small businesses and individual content providers from providing services on the same level as large corporations. In addition, the COPE Act sets up a situation where network operators would be able to block, restrict, or slow consumer access to unapproved sites.

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WinHelp documentation does not create itself, especially out of around 80 assorted manuals; for one business, WebWorks ePublisher Pro for Word took that material and seamlessly assembled it into the format they needed.

Writing about technology and technical writing occupy two separate wings of the writing world. There is a certain freedom with writing about technology, even as its readers expect accuracy in the details.

Technical writing, that’s all about details. Some technical documentation may be for software, or heavy mechanical tools, or biomedical devices. As many firms migrate from printed documentation to electronic versions, the translation has to be precise. Errors could be fatal.

Users of Quadralay’s WebWorks ePublisher Pro for Word benefit from the product’s ability to move content from various formats into other presentations. We found out more about this from Doris Holloway, who works in Software Documentation Services for Jacksonville-based Fidelity National Information Services.

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More than a year has passed since Google introduced NoFollow - a tag intended to reduce comment spam on blogs. Unfortunately, NoFollow has had very little effect on spam, and it seems to be dissuading some people from providing genuine comments.

NoFollow attributes are essentially a way for site authors to mark links as something to be ignored. Search engines would then disregard the links, and not boost the linked pages’ rankings. This would, in theory, deter spammers, who spread comments indiscriminately in the hopes of promoting their own sites. But automated spamming is very inexpensive, and there are still quite a few sites that don’t use NoFollow and that can thereby “reward” spammers. Because of this, the NoFollow deterrent hasn’t proven strong enough, and comment spam is still widespread.

NoFollow is also having an effect on legitimate posts. Since there is often nothing to gain from commenting (in terms of PageRank), some people have become much less willing to leave comments on the blogs of others. This isn’t a universal problem - as Robert Oschler noted on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog about the issue, “You put out a post and in less than one hour you have 15 comments, and you say commenting has slowed down since NOFOLLOW?”

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