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Earlier this weekend I helped my good friend Håvard to set up a blog for the local party By og Bygdelista. It seems like they have used it good so far and even if I rarely state anything political except the usual “Sharing is caring” and “The open Internet” statements this party stands for something that I like.

Even if I spend most of my time in Oslo I’m still registered as a citizen of Hamar and what happens there concerns me a great deal since I have plans to move back to that beautiful town some day. By og Bygdelista is the only party that seems to be working for the positive development and expansion of the town. Most of all, their independence from a national party and their politics is a huge advantage. This makes them available to take the best decisions for Hamar, and not having to follow some politicians in a totally different town deciding what they should decide.

Before By og Bygdelista got to power, Arbeiderpartiet had made a lot of plans, however talk is cheap and they hadn’t made anything come to life. Busterud has during his period so far made things happen.

Busterud sure got my vote as Major for another period.

Originally posted at christoph.no and republished with permission.

Today I ran into the following text on an A List Apart article:

“If a user is blind,” I reasoned, “what does he care that I have a photograph of the university tower on my website?”

My fellow designer shrugged. “Well, I guess if you don’t really care about what the image says,” she said slowly, “you really don’t need it in the first place.”

- Reviving Anorexic Web Writing
by Amber Simmons

And I think it sums up the for and against on alt-text quite well..

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