Telephone Microformats

Sat, August 25, 2007 — Category: Accessibility

Examples of telephone links and microformats.

While looking into the proper syntax for telephone numbers as links in microformats, I found a good discussion from 2005.

There’s a great discussion of telephone microformats and using the tel: protocol in an anchor tag.

Some simple examples might be:


<div class="agent vcard">
  <a class="email fn" href="mailto:jfriday at example.com">Joe Friday</a>
  <a class="tel"      href="tel:+1-919-555-7878</a>
  <div class="title">Area Administrator, Assistant</div>
</div>

Notice the use of the “tel:” in the href attribute. The only drawback I’ve found is that I get a lot of 404 errors in my stats because most clients do not have a telephone application associated with the “tel” link. This can be rather bothersome and result in this:


29	/experience/tel:1+408-656-2473
29	/quote/tel:1+408-656-2473
28	/advertising/tel:1+408-656-2473
28	/terms/tel:+1-408-656-2473

I haven’t decided yet if it is worth seeing these in my stats infavor of allowing skype, or other telephony VOIP apps to link through.

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The Dresden Files: Season Two?

Sat, August 25, 2007 — Category: Advocacy

“The Dresden Files” is a great TV show I recently rented on DVD. If you’re a fan, please take a few minutes to write a snail mail letter to the executives.

Just a quick word — if anyone out there wants to watch some humorous fantasy, pick up “The Dresden Files” season one.

Also there is word on the net that it may not be returning on SCIFI channel for a second season.

Should you be compelled enough, please write a letter to the executives in hopes of bringing “The Dresden Files” back on the air.

The addresses can be found at Dresden City.

It took me about 12 minutes to type 6 letters and address the envelopes. Snail mail works best in these situations.

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Enable Screensavers to Automically Start for KDE Desktop

Sat, August 11, 2007 — Category: Linux

How to enable the screensaver to automatically start and with hotkeys in KDE / Kubuntu.

Thanks to this tip, I was able to finally resolve my issue of KDE screensavers not automatically starting, or working with the hotkey enabled.

It makes perfect sense in hindsight.

The solution is to simply enable “Power saving features” from the Control Center in KDE.

To enable a “hotkey”, you can click “Advanced” for a particular screensaver (ie: Electric Sheep), and specify which corner you want to activate the screen saver.

Update: It appears that when using with a KVM switch that the resolution is not saved after KDE does a “power down” of the monitor. A bummer since I do not have a solution at this time.