Downhill Battle – Music Activism is a “non-profit organization working to break the major label monopoly of the record industry and put control back in the hands of musicians and fans”. I’d like to support them by donating but currently the only way to do that is through paypal. Am I too paranoid about using […]
One of my good friends, eventually to be known as Doctor Kuhl when he gets his Ph. D. from U. of Maryland, is in the market for a new laptop. He called me on Sunday to get my advice and I was a bit surprised in that he was already predisposed to getting an Apple
Last night I did a pretty major, but mostly unnoticeable, upgrade to my blogging software. The most obvious changes you might notice are the option to save your comment posting info in a cookie and a list of the latest comments in the leftmost column on all pages. Other features which may come online soon
At least in sales pitches? From DivaBlog: What if Mozilla were to win in the end? Anyway, the presenter was doing his pitch in a polished way and at one point he said he wanted to show us a “really cool” feature and he looked up into the audience and said “Show of hands…How many
Lemmings was one of those addictive puzzle games available for the PC when I was in high school. The levels required you to use your variously skilled lemmings to lead them safely to the exit. However, if the level really had you stumped or you messed up, you enjoyed the gulty pleasure of commanding them
I can’t believe it. Actually saw this in an email from a potential client at work: “with Mozilla/Firefox being the browser type of choice”
I’m coming to realize that satellite dishes are just a lot less evil than cable companies. Not that I have any legitimate beefs with Dish Network beyond not being able to get certain channels – Fox Sports World, GolTv, Telemundo – without subscribing to their largest packages. The American Customre Satisfaction Index shows that Customer
One thing that’ll be easy to implement is saving a user’s name, email, and website to a cookie and prepopulation the comments field if that cookie is there. Do I need the ubiquitous Save-my-info checkbox or is it ok to do this behind the scenes? I’m also thinking of implementing an optional email notification if
Dan Willis writes Are Useful Requirements Just A Fairy Tale? (and why an IA should care). The article resonates with a lot of themes that we programmers have been dealing with at work over the last year. Sandy has mostly lead the charge to get more complete requirements written early in the process. In some
Plenty of opportunites to practice my alliteration. Enjoy these two panoramic pictures from Lisbon and Sintra.