One Year ago today: USA 3 – Portugal 2
Who else was awake with us at 2am one year ago today to witness this? Once the US won this game, we knew it was going to be a special world cup. US Soccer has a retrospective.
More Firebird resources
Adot’s notblog has a very useful summary of blog postings regarding the growing buzz surrounding Mozilla’s Firebird browser
How will normal, non-emacs-using people write the semantic web?
Jon Udell’s slides of his OSCOM keynote are available. Lots of insight for people building their own CMSs.
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Getting a modern browser
Slashdot found that MS IE6 SP1 will be the last standalone version that Microsoft makes available. Joel on Software writes that he is making Mozilla Firebird his default browser After downloading virtually every Mozilla release over the last three years, this is the first browser I’m actually going to make my default web browser. All
TiVo is going to give Nielsen a run for their money.
TiVo collects a lot of information on user’s viewing habits. You can opt-in fully and opt-out fully by calling their customer service line. The company, rightly so, is very paranoid about keeping this information anonymous and secure. First, because it’s a very valuable asset that competitors would love to have. Second, it would be a
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The Anonymity of Fame
Interesting article on the Washington Times about the popularity of sports message boards in which Sachin Shah mentions how we ended up being roomates at the beginning of this year. "Basically, a lot of us over the years have gotten to know each other on BigSoccer," Shah said. "I know of at least two couples
If you really cared would you need this service?
Kudos to this site for finding a market niche and exploiting it. I can’t say that I think its a sign of a healthy relationship when a guy resorts to using this service. "I think that this is probably one of the best ideas I’ve seen out there to help keep the romance going in
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Regular Expressions are your friends.
Two and a half years ago, when I first dove into web development, I wasn’t very familiar with regular expressions. They certainly didn’t look regular to me, looked more like someone’s keyboard exploded. Now, having figured out a thing or two about them, I came across the following lines: $pos = strpos ( $this->user->privs, ‘del’);
Spreading the RSS gospel
I get the vibe that RSS is still a little too new for the powers that be to accept. Once you start using it however, RSS is one of those things that you’d come to miss REAL quick. I bet one year from now, most people will be finding interesting content from a website’s feed