HTML 4.5. Rob Sayre compiled a list of things that don’t belong in HTML5, in the name of getting it finished this decade. I don’t think HTML 5 will be much interesting without some of these items, but IrDA support is definitely not a feature that should hold back the spec. Anyone using it?Favorite part, though, is Rob’s blog tagline:

“Firefox” is an application which was downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?

Code worthy. Couple of code-laden posts worth sharing. Dominiek ter Heide on building a TwitterBot using XMPP4R, and manitoba98′s Rails messaging tutorial.

Reverse engineered. Using Ruby2Ruby to figure out what your code really does, after all the meta-programming took its toll.

Not so secret after all. How to circumvent disk encryption.

Defining moment. Things to do today: get to know yourself better reading Stuff White People Like. For example, did you know (#71) that ….

In most situations, white people are very comforted by seeing their own kind. However, when they are eating at a new ethnic restaurant or traveling to a foreign nation, nothing spoils their fun more than seeing another white person.

(Via Giles)

_{Above, poor screenshot quality but the message is clear. Makes me like crash-prone Beta 3 even more.}