Archive for February, 2005

Confidential to someone with duct tape over his mouth

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

A message tapped out on the prison bars.

My priest

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

I’m both astonished, and delighted, to find that I have a priest.

Google’s stilted voice

Friday, February 18th, 2005

I mean our favorite uncle’s pockets have serious protectors and his slide rule is well-oiled

Oops, I meant to get to that

Friday, February 18th, 2005

Back before my annual fall sabbatical, I was supposed to do something about Internationalization and Trackbacks. Good to see Jacques taking care of it, because I flat out forgot.

Power, or simplicity?

Friday, February 18th, 2005

Talking about Brian Dear’s pretty alternative idea for select menus, Ev says you can’t tab to drop-downs. Sounds like someone needs to enable full keyboard access on his Mac.

My brother’s (feed’s) keeper

Friday, February 18th, 2005

The downside of being the one of the very few not using Bloglines or another aggregator with a very liberal XML parser is that you then have to police the world’s feeds.

As long as you feel

Friday, February 18th, 2005

Feel the love/hate : Internet Explorer’s legacy, making people passionate about browsers. Sounds good to me.

A better remove_html?

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

If they can put a man on the moon, and turn a bunch of slashes, underscores, and asterisks into HTML, surely someone could turn HTML into readable plain text, couldn’t they?

Devils and dust

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

Ah, April : when a young(ish) man’s fancy turns to thoughts of Bruuuuuuuuce!

All your DRM are belong

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

Unprotecting iTunes vs. Unprotecting Napster : if we can burn a CD, your DRM is worthless. If we can’t burn a CD, we won’t buy from you. Are we done comparing DRM yet?