Archive for the 'shorts' Category

Talkeetna, WWR

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

Good gracious. I wondered where JeffK was these days, but I never would have guessed he was living on the air in Talkeetna.

An immoderate improvement

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

MT-Moderate 1.0.0 now includes moderation for TrackBack pings. I’m not using it myself (being too fond of my sekrit methods), but it’s a sweet and cunning hack around a glaring defect in Movable Type.

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.

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.

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?

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.