The hits keep rolling in from Jeffrey Zeldman. Tardiness is inexcusable. Plan to be there early so at worst you arrive on time.

Depressing news from Jeffrey Zeldman on the near-term viability of @font-face font embedding.

"To the extent that W3C specifications remain modular, practical, and accessible to the non-PhD in computer science, they will be adopted by browser makers and the marketplace. The farther they depart from the principles Bert articulated, the sooner they will peter out into nothingness, and the likelier we are to face a crisis in which web standards once again detach from the direction in which the web is actually moving, and the medium is given over to incompatible, proprietary technologies."