Archive for the 'random linkage' Category

Beyond polarized

Sunday, August 29th, 2004

It’s a threat to national security to say that the Supreme Court fears the abuse of “threat to national security.”

Who’s this Hemenway fellow, anyway?

Thursday, August 26th, 2004

Morbus mixes it up with Dr. Gizmo over who’s more real.

PHP turns evil

Thursday, August 19th, 2004

PHP 5.1 is going to let you set the bozo bit and parse not-well-formed XML with something that’s also an XML parser. Good for them, I say.

HostMeNot

Thursday, August 19th, 2004

BugMeNot, the solution to having to constantly tell newspapers that you are a 91 year old woman from Afghanistan, got shoved off its host. Thousands will be unable to read poorly-researched articles for a few days while it moves to offshore hosting.

No unread items

Saturday, July 31st, 2004

In the past, when I got back from my annual offline vacation, my biggest problem was plowing through email and spam. This time, that wasn’t too bad, but the unread item count in Bloglines was a killer: 5250 unread items. A few hundred, certainly less than a thousand, were just things like stale weather reports, […]

A bad case of popupitis

Friday, June 18th, 2004

Popup ads have now done their job: if you bring anything, anything at all, into view over the top of your main program or web page window, whether it’s a dialog or an error message or whatever, it will be instantly closed without even a glance. It’s time to find a way to communicate inside your existing page, because all things that pop up are now popup ads, to be instantly swatted.

Eight clicks to pr0n!!1!

Sunday, June 13th, 2004

If you’re going to accuse someone of the shocking crime of having a web page that’s eight clicks away from porn, it’s probably best to not be seven clicks away yourself.

Things I wish I hadn’t read

Monday, June 7th, 2004

W3C: More Mouths Means More Places For Our Feet.

Ah, community

Monday, June 7th, 2004

Community is the thing with wallets and fangs, if you are a modern-day online marketer.

Like a weblog, but completely different

Thursday, June 3rd, 2004

Aimless Rooney-esque rambling about the ubiquity of ‘blogs’ and the annoyance of forced free registration, and several big juicy kisses for BugMeNot.