Here’s a good example of why the “if you’re not doing anything wrong, why worry?” argument against privacy invasion is useless and misguided. Just because you aren’t doing anything illegal, does that mean you want your family to be able to see what you’ve been searching for without you realising? Of course not — privacy [...]
Code names…how stupid! Or so I used to think. Naming servers fun names like Greek gods (ergh, ok that’s not really fun it’s just tired) or food (spaghetti, noodle, wasabi) seemed like good fun but not that useful. I didn’t really understand what project codenames (like Whistler, Yukon and Whidbey for Microsoft software releases) were [...]
Well, only just after that post it looks like I’ll have to challenge Daniel to use the new Whereis interface and tell me it’s not better, because it’s a LOT better thanks to some AJAX kinda stuff (and of course the new graphics that bring it well into 2002 ). Clicking to re-centre the map [...]
Daniel tonight told me that he hadn’t yet seen a good implementation of an ajax application, that they’re always too slow and the delay bugs him. I really don’t know what he’s talking about so maybe I should have clarified, although I think it’s possible that he’s used ajax on sites that aren’t so obvious [...]
Something tonight pointed me to Guy Kawasaki’s reasonably new blog titled “Let the Good Times Roll”, I think it was Om Malik. Om mentioned how people have wondered why Guy hasn’t started a blog before, and I wonder the same ’cause his blog is excellent reading. Who is he? Well, just an ex-Stanford and UCLA [...]
My simple-mindedness means I’m a bit of a minimalist, which is why I prefer the Google Talk instant messaging experience to MSN’s Messenger. Nevertheless, as with most things Microsoft, the Rest of The World(tm) seems to use MSN, so if I want to talk to them I’ve gotta use it too. I’ve fluffed around a [...]
The Flangy Guide to Hating VBScript is a better written, more complete and more technically correct version of my post a few months ago which I eloquently titled “VBScript is crap“. Flangy covers the main gripe I covered, which was about the inconsistency of when parentheses are needed, and actually explains what the story is. [...]
I’ve just received an email from Alex Tew of milliondollarhomepage fame about his site. (yeah, I bought some pixels back in September). Looks like the DDoS story is true, here’s what Alex had to say about it: I’m pleased to report that The Million Dollar Homepage is back online after almost 6 days of downtime [...]
I really need to get on the Ruby (and more specifically, Rails) bandwagons. I mean, with quotes like these: It takes about half or less code to put my stuff together in RoR than it did in PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, etc. I use to worry about giving my client an estimate and then running over [...]