Assistant Professor of Technical Communication, Illinois Institute of Technology
Moving sites around from server to server is enough to help anyone see more clearly how and why Web sites can always stand to be built in an ever-more portable fashion.
Suddenly it occurs to me that so-called “div-itis"--where web writers use tons of div tags instead of structural header or list tags--is probably caused, in part, by the fact that web browsers apply no default styling to those blocks. That, in turn, takes the guesswork out of styling. Of course, a reset CSS file is a much better option all around.
What appears to be a bug in a piece of open source software prompts me to share an argument that I’m in the early stages of developing.

A double rainbow over Chicago; the spires on the Hancock are barely visible.
When using the UNION syntax in MySQL, it is essential that the order of fields in subsequent SELECT statements match the order (and number) in the first statement.
I just noticed that Pederick’s Web Developer toolbar scrolls back to the top of a page when using Edit CSS on embedded CSS. Editing a linked (and perhaps imported?) stylesheet does not affect the scrolled position on a page.
I’m an assistant professor of technical communication at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL. I completed my PhD in rhetoric and composition at Purdue University in 2007.
This fall, I am teaching graduate seminars in Information Structure and Retrieval, and Open Source in Technical Communication.
On Twitter: Exhausted from a long week, but nerding out over the new iPhone enhancements c/o today's software update.