A while ago I had mic_technorati_cosmos—the Technorati Cosmos plugin for Textpattern—installed and while it offered a great alternative to Trackbacks I found that to the way it was coded and poor response times of the Technorati API caused some serious page load problems. I didn’t have the time or immediate need to chase ways of working around the issues so I simply turned it off and let it be.

After some back and forth with Adobe, Geoff Sterns has renamed his popular FlashObject detection script for embedding Flash content in a standards safe and Eolas safe manner to SWFObject.

Whatever could go wrong, did. Rangers took a beating from the Senators. Both Philly and NJ showed they could turn up the heat and come from behind to win important games. End result the Rangers go from first in the division to 3rd, and will play NJ in the first round of the playoffs as the away team.

But you all probably know that already.

Elsewhere, capping off the down night the Hartford Wolf Pack lost the first game of their AHL semi-finals round.

All in all a good night to forget capping a season that you can’t forget and it all starts from square one at 3:00 on Saturday.

From An update on the IE ActiveX change from Mike Nash:

So when we release the next cumulative IE security update, customers will only be able to interact with Microsoft ActiveX controls loaded in certain web pages after manually activating their user interfaces by clicking on it or using the TAB key and ENTER key.

Since I just haven’t had time or immediate need to dissect the impact of the changes myself here are a few posts and discussions elsewhere worth a read.

• Today is ActiveX Black Tuesday at deconcept.
• Internet Explorer Eolas changes and the Flash plugin also at deconcept.
• More Active Content info from John Dowdell of Adobe [Macromedia].
• Patents v. Microsoft at mezzoblue.

Today is CSS Naked Day—dubbed as day used to promote Web Standards by hiding the CSS style information from your site and letting the underlying markup and semantic content shine through.

As you can see (unless you’re reading this via a feed reader) I’m not one of the people participating.

I chose not to join the 500+ sites getting naked because I don’t feel that presenting pages that look like they were built in 1995¹ is necessarily the best way to reinforce the strengths that standards offer. At least not to my audience—who when they aren’t members of the choir would probably tend to ask questions like “so what”?