Sunday, 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.
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.”
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.
Netscape Toolbar for IE (via) AOL continue to rape Netscape’s corpse.
Eastern Standard Tribe (Wired November 2001) (via) The origin of the idea for Cory’s most recent novel?
Sports Illustrated’s digital workflow (via) 16,183 photos in just 6 hours.
Airport Codes: A History and Explanation (via) I finally understand why Kansas City International is MCI.
XP Service Pack 2 Review. Several welcome security improvements for those still suffering on Windows ;)
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.