The Bear has been released into the wild wide web. Bear SQL is an free, open source, web interface to MySQL. It aims to make administration and use of MySQL simple.

It's open source, you can be involved in this project and help to make it better even if you aren't a coder.
Provide feedback, suggestions, code improvements, feature requests, language packs, documentation, testing or help promote it add a link to it from your site.

Education and computing changed my life, so what better way to help someone then by providing the means for them to help them self.
I am going to donate to the One Laptop program an thought I would offer this opportunity for others to donate.

Here's a video about the program http://www.dailymotion.com/olpcfoundation.

The software on the one laptop program is Open source, so in less then 10 years we will have wave of great open source developers.

The best reply functionality has been in place just over three weeks and since it is a new month I thought I give the top posters a little credit. I very please to announce that wolfcry911, a member for over 4 years is the first to receive the best reply award. Well done wolfcry911. Each of his posts were marked by different authors, and were surprisingly short and to the point.
Wolfcry send me your postal address details and a book that you would like and I will drop a note to Santa.

I have been meaning to pass on a series of articles related to the issues dyslexia causes for some time now. The series was published a couple of years ago, and Roger Johansson blogged about it a couple of weeks ago, bringing the series back to mind.

Dyslexia pretty much flummoxes me, so I'll assume you too. We can imagine most visual and mobility handicaps, but I, for one, have no way to anticipate the problems our designs might cause the dyslexic.

Dyslexia is not a single symptom disability.

I recently had reason to include some verse in a page I was working on. Markup and styles for modern browsers were a breeze. IE was a royal PITA. I wanted to center the verse, but IE just wouldn't cooperate. My methods degraded gracefully, leaving IE typographically OK, but not centered.

Fortunately, Richard Rutter has been writing a series of articles over the last few years, bringing typographic style to the web page.