OpenIDSunday, 21st March 2004
Avoiding protracted debates
I love Charles Miller’s Fishbowl. His latest entry introduces his rules for argument. Read them, follow them and save a truck-load of time avoiding protracted debates in the future. Heck, if everyone stuck to them the overall productivity of the internet would probably increase by a factor of ten. [... 51 words]
Bill Gates goes dumpster diving. “The best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.” 
7:13 pm
Democratised Namespaces
The New York Times: Get out of my Namespace (via Diego Doval)—a well-researched look at the huge problems (and frivolous lawsuits) being generated by the global quest for ownership of unique names. [... 267 words]
ICANN: Ten New Sponsored TLD Applications Received. Finally a TLD for filtering all of those cat picture sites. 7:37 pm
Netscape Toolbar for IE (via) AOL continue to rape Netscape’s corpse. 7:48 pm
Eastern Standard Tribe (Wired November 2001) (via) The origin of the idea for Cory’s most recent novel? 7:55 pm
Sports Illustrated’s digital workflow (via) 16,183 photos in just 6 hours. 8:37 pm
Airport Codes: A History and Explanation (via) I finally understand why Kansas City International is MCI. 8:48 pm
XP Service Pack 2 Review. Several welcome security improvements for those still suffering on Windows ;) 9:14 pm
Zend PHP 5 Goodies
Zend have quietly released a veritable treasure trove of PHP 5 tutorials via their PHP5 InfoCenter: [... 212 words]
“I think he’s done a terrible job on the war against terrorism.” (via) Bush’s top anti-terrorism advisor... on Bush. 10:19 pm
