Archive for February, 2005

Customers and users

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

(MS IE Team) Listening to Customers. The distinction between IE users and MS customers is important to remember, if rather unpalatable. If ten thousand very loud and obnoxious web geeks who buy one computer with Windows preinstalled every few years (for testing only) want one thing (to the extent that “support all of CSS and […]

I want comments back. Everywhere.

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

The real cost of comment spam. I know that’s not spammers, just the real msnbot following (possibly quite stale) links to Chuq’s TrackBack popups, but since he’s got comments shut off, I have no way of knowing if fifty people have already sent him email and IMs telling him that. What a pain.

disableIDN

Monday, February 14th, 2005

Mozilla’s IDN Spoofing Strategy. Turn it off. Hope the registrars do their job.

Life-ing JavaScript

Sunday, February 13th, 2005

Post headers playing Life in unobtrusive Javascript: a sure winner for best shiny-silly-flashing-toy on a blog in 2005.

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

Sunday, February 13th, 2005

Steve and Stacey, sitting in a tree. :)

Doin’ a demo

Sunday, February 13th, 2005

The words “this is a demo” do not count as a demonstration of weblogging. Find something to say next time, and your demoees and your readers will both thank you.

Demos 2004

Sunday, February 13th, 2005

And Now: Some Shameless Commerce: woohoo! fresh Scott Andrew!

How far we’ve sunk

Sunday, February 13th, 2005

Remember when getting a comment blacklist was exciting? Now, your excitement is just fodder for spamming bloggers.

Say no to essays

Sunday, February 13th, 2005

a tool’s influence : or, you can fight back against your tool’s attempts to control you.

Putting Baby in a corner

Sunday, February 13th, 2005

Open Source Blogs? : same thing struck me, but last time I tried to categorize my subscriptions, they came out as “Blogs I Like” and “Things That Cover Just One Category”.