“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” — Jorge Louis Borges

Do you know how your site displays on a mobile device?  For an analysis of how your site might look on mobile devices, use the W3C mobileOK Checker.

Then head over to Mowser to see what it should look like.  Of course you could encourage visitors to your site to use Mowser, but most wouldn’t want to be bothered with the extra step.

I searched for and found a handy plugin for WordPress that detects the type of browser used by visitors, then automatically renders the mobile version of the page.

Read about best practices and useful resources at the W3C Mobile Web Initiative site.

Adoptees Fight for Access to Original Birth Certificates
Monday, August 02, 2010

This is from the “Why” page of the site.

“The danger is publicly telling people where you are. This is because it leaves one place you’re definitely not… home. So here we are; on one end we’re leaving lights on when we’re going on a holiday, and on the other we’re telling everybody on the internet we’re not home.”

There’s sure to be some surprises when individuals explore their ancestry.

In case you missed the “African American Lives”, the episode are online.

I recently attended a genealogy conference and was glad I did, but almost talked myself out of going.  It had been raining for most of the week and while that’s not unusual for some places, here in the desert, it can make a real mess.  There were road closures, snarled traffic and generally crabby drivers on the roads.  Desert dwellers miss their sunshine.

Allowing myself plenty of time to negotiate the traffic, I arrived early enough to visit the exhibit hall.  I made a couple of purchases, but more interesting was the people-watching opportunity.  In a crowded exhibit hall, one cannot help but overhear conversations and the common interest provides plenty of opportunities to talk with strangers.

There is the “need to know” one’s place in family history, but what is it that compels people to sit in front of microfilm readers until their eyes are red and squinty?  What makes people congregate in a crowded exhibit hall and stand in long lines to purchase a magnabrite® ?  As my mom says, “You tell me and we’ll both know.”

“Under the no-cash deal, Yahoo! will use Microsoft’s new Bing search engine on its own sites while Yahoo! will provide the exclusive global sales force for premium search advertisers.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091205/tc_afp/usitcompanyinternetyahoomicrosoftgoogle

As one of my friends said, “This can’t be good.”