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The last project I had the privilege of working on while at Footnote.com launched earlier today.

Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial

You can view the entire wall, and do more than just view the names of the men killed in the war - you learn about these men.

Initially, the info provided about these guys is just the basics - birth/death, military info, etc., however, as time goes on, and more content is added, you’ll be able to see photos, and read histories of these men. Much of this content will be user-contributed, by the friends and family of the men memorialized by this monument.

Working on this project was great - it was a chance to stretch my talents, and see what I could do as a Flash developer, but it also gave me a greater appreciation for the lives these men gave. I wasn’t alive during this time period, and so I can’t pretend to understand the full impact of the Vietnam War, or the impact that had on the lives of the people that lived it, but working on this project at least made a bit of history feel a bit more “real” to me.

With the recent release of Safari 3.1, I was curious to see a before and after comparison of how Safari 3.0 and 3.1 would render the Acid 3 test. For those who don’t know, the Acid tests are designed to determine how well a browser follows various web standards. Currently, no browsers pass the Acid3 test with 100%, but they are getting closer.

Once I checked out the two versions of Safari, I got curious to see how well some other browsers performed. And so here are the results of my completely unscientific testing, sorted by the respective scores of each browser. Now, on to the results!

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So my plan to reveal 100 facts about myself in 100 days turned into about 17 facts before I went on a vacation, and forgot to resume the posts.

I’ll resume that undertaking in the future, but for now, I think I’ll just have to leave it at the 17 for now until I get inspired enough to come up with 83 more facts to share.