Archive for February, 2005

You hack, you have to pay the price

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

Problems the new IE could cause : I’m sure I’ve got some half-forgotten pages where it seemed like a good idea at the time to use some IE-specific CSS hack. No idea which, maybe someone will tell me once it becomes unreadable in IE.

If you have an extraordinary landlord

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

Chuq on outsourcing his blog hosting and application : I can’t imagine trusting anyone else to want my blog as spamfree as I want it, but he makes a lot of sense.

Three pointing back at you

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

Big companies say the W3C is out of touch : small companies and independents say “we can’t afford a membership, so perhaps there’s nobody there but you.”

Helping customers be insecure

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

JavaScript toy keyboards for security? : from the Dept. of Really Bad Ideas.

Free, free, set them free

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

“If you love your readers, set them free” : oh, so many nice contexts it works out of.

How to review software in your weblog

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

If you aren’t even willing to install it, just to read the opinion of someone who read the feature list on the download page, can we call your opinion informed? Didn’t think so.

Snoopy bug, or not?

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

Sure, I could just file the sucker and find out that way, but I’d rather have you tell me I’m being stupid than have strangers do it.

How to find things

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

Get a real librarian. And then, for extra brilliance, tell him what you want to know, not where you think you should look. So very, very right.

Uninstalling Abe

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

“If you uninstall Abe Vigoda Status, the functionality it offers will no longer be available.” D’oh, but why do we have such an over-wordy dialog when we mean “Really uninstall Abe Vigoda Status?” And why do we have a dialog, rather than making it reversible up until you restart? And why is this a Short, […]

Thud

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

jwz kicking the Hula puppy. He’s right, of course: something like the WordPress of calendars would be great; something that can support 50,000 simultaneous users I’m not even going to bother looking at.