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I’ve just upgraded this blog to the latest WordPress. Everything seems ok, but please let me know if you spot anything wrong.

New ETSI standard for EU-compliant electronic signatures.

Twitter particle systems using HTML5

Also see:  Die IE6.

I’ve installed the NoScript Firefox extension to protect against XSS and other javascript-based attacks, but am finding that lots of sites are depending on javascript for basic functionality 🙁

To all web devs – please remember Checkpoint 6.3 of the WCAG: Ensure that pages are usable when scripts, applets, or other programmatic objects are turned off or not supported.

Game Set Watch has an article about progression in games; mainly on character progression, rather than player progression – but still an interesting look at different approached to the tutorial phase.

Jono Bacon, community manager at Canonical (sponsors of Ubuntu) posts about the Ohio Linuxfest, including a video demonstrating a great community moment.

The Commonwealth of Virginia is getting into open textbooks (with a Creative Commons license).

An interesting project to make people aware of the technology they use, through the errors and constraints the technology produces.

Zotero looks like an interesting looking tool for managing online research sources: lots of functions similar to EndNote integrated as a Firefox plugin, plus a bunch of online research community/collaboration stuff if you want it.

Interesting blog post where Sergey Solyanik talks about why he moved from Google to Microsoft. I don’t know anything about the culture inside Google, but the peer-based performance review model sounds like a good idea.