January 2005
Jan. 10, 2005
podSites.com. Resources for creating mini websites to load on to iPods.
Jan. 11, 2005
Andy’s Sandbox (via) The PLink Abductor has been joined by a funky pullout technique.
Rhino now supports E4X. Rhino is a JavaScript implementation in Java; E4X provides native XML support as a language feature.
www.imacmini.com. Interesting...
Picture of the iMac mini. I don’t think this is a fake.
Mac mini. Small, cheap, pretty.
iPod shuffle. Smaller than a pack of gum.
iWork—Pages (via) Might make the Word Processing market interesting again.
@media 2005. Web Standards / accessibility conference in London, with a great list of speakers but a painful registration fee.
Jan. 12, 2005
Russell Beattie reviews the iPod shuffle. Reconfirming his position as the world’s number one early adopter.
Turn any iPod into an iPod Shuffle in 3 easy steps! “Now you can enjoy the iPod Shuffle’s cool new feature without having to go buy a new player.”
Jan. 15, 2005
The Stripper-FAQ (via) Surprisingly informative and not in the least bit sleazy.
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day. Wikipedia, English edition turns 4.
Macworld Expo and Web Standards: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Apparently the HTML export from Pages sucks, horribly.
Jan. 16, 2005
BBC—Comedy—Armando Iannucci. Finally, news on a DVD of “The Armando Iannucci Show”.
I need a new backpack
I’m a big fan of eBags.com for this kind of thing, because it lets you pick the model of your laptop and then tells you which bags it will fit in. I bought a bag from there last year and the e-commerce / delivery side of things was flawless.
[... 62 words]Internet Explorer drops support for bookmarklets? Latest patch prevents drag-n-drop to toolbar.
Corrupt Techniques in Evidence Presentations (via) A new chapter from Edward Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence.
A Mac-to-PC switcher movie (via) Yet Another Parody, but this one made me chuckle.
Jan. 17, 2005
rel=“nofollow”
Reading between the lines (which in this case isn’t particularly hard), this and this (don’t forget to view source) suggest that Google are soon to announce that they won’t be calculating PageRank for links with a rel="nofollow" attribute. Finally, an official way of fighting the economics of comment spam by denying PageRank on user-submitted link content. Sam Ruby points to Mark Pilgrim’s prediction that spammers won’t care—they’ll spam anyway, on the offchance that they hit somewhere undefended. I’m optimistic—if the major weblog (and wiki) vendors get behind this one it could help stem the tide.
franklinmint.fm: rel=“nofollow”. Robert spotted it first.
Small, Cheap, and Without a Display. John Gruber’s analysis of the MacWorld expo.
Jan. 19, 2005
Google Blog: Preventing comment spam. I was right, then.
The Daily Express on Firefox. Ish. Amusing example of inaccuracy in mainstream media.
PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Released. Includes a native Win32 port for the first time!
PostgreSQL: What’s New in 8.0. Win32 server, savepoints, tablespaces, plperl and more.
IBM to Free Java—Next Week? The question mark means it’s a rumour.
Interviewing at Google. An insight in to the Google interviewing process.
Wikipedia: Shirky / (Tufte x Wattenburg) = ? Sparklines for Wikipedia: an outstanding idea.