2008 was the second year that we tracked some SMART goals here at F_D for its humble narrator. Our accomplishments during 2007 were excellent overall, so we decided to repeat the experiment. We mixed it up a bit for 2008, tweaking the individual goals, adding some new ones, removing other irrelevant ones… And 2008 mixed it up a bit on us, too. Let’s see where we landed, shall we?
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I spent a little time this past weekend trying to wrap up my “for Ortho 0.5″ to-do list. Fixed a few obscure bugs, polished up a few items that had bugged me, deferred a few others to the Ortho 1.0 to-do list. And I was basically ready to close the book on Ortho 0.5 if not for IE6′s various inexplicable float bugs:
What you see is a carved-out screenshot from this recent post. Looks fine in any decent, modern browser. But as you can see from that screen cap, looks like shit in Internet Explorer 6. My gut reaction is to take a page from Mr. John Gruber:
If Daring Fireball looks like shit in your browser, you’re using a shitty browser that doesn’t support web standards. Internet Explorer, I’m looking in your direction. If you complain about this, I will laugh at you, because I do not care.
But the evidence in my logs suggests that a significant-enough portion of my pages are getting served up to IE6[1] and so I feel like I should make a best effort to resolve something that so seriously screws up the layout. So web standards aside, IE6 mockery aside, there was the challenge of getting things to look right.
A quick “Happy Merry Xmas” shout out to all my readers. A few Xmas traditions from our household that go into our annual celebrations:
What are yours?
Via A.: Protest flares up on Facebook over breast-feeding photos:
A minirevolt is underway at Facebook after photos of mothers nursing their babies were removed from their personal pages. ¶ More than 58,000 people have joined a Facebook group called “Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!” to complain about the censorship.
The article’s comment thread is a real study in how ignorant some trolls can be about this issue.
Facebook’s assertion that they only remove images where the entire breast is exposed is weak. The bottom line is that breastfeeding is about as natural of an act as any that a woman can participate in. Whether the baby is latched on or not should make no difference in judging the context of the image. A breastfeeding mother that chooses to post such a picture is doing it with full knowledge of how she is depicting herself and her baby; there is nothing obscene about it. The article referenced above has the following quote from Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt:
“These policies are designed to ensure Facebook remains a safe, secure and trusted environment for all users, including the many children [over the age of 13] who use the site…”
…and from exactly what are we trying to protect these children? Babies getting their snack on? A nipple?
It’s a sad state of affairs when the hyper-sexualization of a woman’s body leads to poor policy decisions like this. The assertion that it’s motivated by the desire to create “a safe, secure and trusted environment for all users” doesn’t resolve — there’s plenty of advertising on their network to the contrary.
Which is not to say that I’m advocating pulling that shit down. Just a little common sense all around would be nice.
The virtual nurse-in is scheduled for Saturday, December 27. Facebook users can join the group here. For more information about breastfeeding, check out Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers
Winter comes, time passes. You miss some opportunities, you stumble on to some others.
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