Grid computing has a new startup, courtesy of Australia's Gridbus project.

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When Apple first announced Mac OS X Snow Leopard in June, it said the OS would ship in about year. But a slide shown by an Apple employee at a recent conference suggests the upcoming operating system may be ahead of schedule.

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Christmas Card 2008

Just ordered them.

The W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has published the Proposed Recommendation of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 and updated Working Drafts of Understanding WCAG 2.0, Techniques for WCAG 2.0, and How to Meet WCAG 2.0. "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech difficulties, photosensitivity and combinations of these. Following these guidelines will also often make your Web content more usable to users in general. WCAG 2.0 success criteria are written as testable statements that are not technology-specific. " Comments are due by December 2, 2008.