Archive for the 'random linkage' Category

<strong> is not a better <b>

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

Lest anyone think I’m not an equal-opportunity ranter, I’ll pull this out of my comments: The default WordPress theme includes vertical bars in the “postmetadata” section, between the category (and the “Edit this” link if you are logged in) and the number of comments, with <strong>|</strong> which, as I said, would seem to be trying […]

I give up on depreciated

Saturday, November 5th, 2005

You say depreciated, I say deprecated, let’s call you wrong.

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Sunday, October 30th, 2005

A smattering of the things that have caught my attention over the last couple of weeks.

He returns!

Friday, October 21st, 2005

When the Wonderchicken comes home to roost, the weird turn up the corners of their mouths :)

Wanting to get it right

Sunday, October 16th, 2005

I’ll take a commitment to improve over a belief that whatever’s done is done any day.

O’Reilly joins the search engine spam parade

Friday, August 19th, 2005

I knew the book market was bad, but so bad that O’Reilly is spamming search engines for mortgage refinancing and Cuban cigars?

The ‘monkey’s back

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

MagicLine is what I’ve always wanted a browser address bar to be, plus a whole lot more. Welcome back, Greasemonkey!

Journalism and weblogs, part 327

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

Journalism is where you get paid for being wrong. Weblogs are where obnoxious bastards like me call you on it.

Surviving in an age of customers with voices

Friday, May 13th, 2005

If your customers are talking, my guess is you’d better be talking, too.

Aggregator-worn links, sold dirt cheap

Saturday, May 7th, 2005

Several days of things I might have written about, rather than just dumping them from my aggregator when I got tired of being reminded of how lazy I was being.