Hope everyone enjoyed a bit of a break — me I’m still fighting the cold that started just before my holidays began. By the way, rumour has it the latest CBC Radio 3 webzine is using a David Elfstrom photo…

Online wrtiers love debating the proper spelling of Internet terms (“Web site” vs. “website”; “e-mail” vs. “e-mail”). In fact, the shockwaves are still being felt from Wired News’s shift to “e-mail” more than two years ago. Now “Internet” is up for debate: Shift uses a lowercase “I” — depite my protestations to the friend and editor who was, in-part, responsible for the change — and now the issue has cropped-up in The New York Times.

As I told that Shift editor: the Internet is a proper noun because it refers to the network of networked devices communicating via TCP/IP that evolved from ARPANET. Don’t lowercase it.

Jim Wilkinson has put together a good article on (and example style sheet for) “Using CSS as a Diagnostic Tool.” The css-discuss Wiki contains a number of such gems.