Cassowaries Rant

And one last thing today

Two site updates: I’ve fixed this page up to make it XHTML 1.1 compliant again. For the most part, the errors were caused by me thinking the <abbr> tag was <abbrev>; a few were caused by general stupidity, and one by i-have-no-idea-what-I-was-thinking-when-i-wrote-it–type stupidity.

Secondly, as a courtesy to romance conlangers (that is, people who construct languages based on languages related to Vulgar Latin, which are called Romance languages because of their relationship with Rome), I have a mostly-complete mirror of the retiring romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Group archives, which became a spam-haven due to Yahoo!’s friendliness. Future postings on that topic should be made to the new romconlang Yahoo! Group. Yahoo! has an understandable tendency to close down unused groups &c., hence the need. A European mirror of the romanceconlang archives is also available

Update (1.26 pm): I have made changes to the CSS file so that it now renders comparably in both Gecko and Internet Explorer. However, due to General IE crappiness, I still recommend the use of an alternative browser, such as Mozilla or Opera (comparably is not the same as identically—check out the tables, for instance).