Items in Jan, 2005
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The Mysterious Disappearance of Carol Hersee (via) The famous test card, and the creepy clown, explained at last. # 31st January 2005, 10:06 pm
Interview with a link spammer. Or how knowledge of LWP can earn you seven figures. # 31st January 2005, 9:19 pm
Favatars. Utterly brilliant hack by Stuart. # 31st January 2005, 1:22 pm
How to Study: A Brief Guide. It’s a shame I only stumbled on this 45 minutes before my hardest exam... # 31st January 2005, 8:38 am
Opera 8.0 previews and betas. liorean’s overview of the state of Opera. # 31st January 2005, 5:23 am
Web Application Form Design. Smart thinking on form layout. # 30th January 2005, 6:58 pm
Back to Iraq 3.0: Election Day (via) Early indications are that they pulled if off. Excellent news. # 30th January 2005, 5:58 pm
Baghdad Girl (via) 13 year old Iraqi cat blogger. # 28th January 2005, 2:07 pm
Hacker or Lynx user? That is the question. # 28th January 2005, 12:10 am
NSLog() has a funky new design. I don’t know how long it’s looked like this, but I love it. # 27th January 2005, 11:20 pm
Darin Fisher joins Ben Goodger at Google. Maybe they’re interested in XUL and Mozilla’s other cross-platform tools. # 27th January 2005, 3:30 pm
Ruby On Rails + XUL Experiment. States that Wiki is Hawaiian for “can’t find shit.” # 27th January 2005, 3:16 am
Copyright vs Community with Cory Doctorow (via) If you haven’t seen Cory speaking before, watch this. # 26th January 2005, 9:43 pm
Why Your Pointy Haired Boss Is A Mathematical Certainty. There’s a graph and everything. # 26th January 2005, 6:56 pm
Iraq and cynicism. . # 26th January 2005, 6:50 pm
Sound Studio. Nice shareware sound editing app for OS X. # 26th January 2005, 10:57 am
Kid by Example. It’s Yet Another Python Templating Language, but I have to admit it does look very cool. # 26th January 2005, 10:23 am
Don’t build web apps that only work in IE
This is a rant, for which I will make no apologies. The wonderful thing about web applications is that they free you from being tied down to a specific platform. A well written web application is accessible from any platform that can run a web browser. Netscape and Microsoft both realised this back in the mid-90s, which is why Microsoft pulled out all the stops in winning the browser wars; they knew that the browser as an open application platform was a direct threat to their Windows lock-in. It’s not inconceivable to argue that this was the main reason they added so many weird little proprietary DHTML extensions to IE in the following years—and it’s those that are the root of the problem.
[... 311 words]A Plan for Spam Folders. Some people actually buy stuff from spam filtered to their spam folders. # 25th January 2005, 10:56 pm
Tags != folksonomies && Tags != Flat name spaces. Clay Shirky’s latest thoughts on tags. # 25th January 2005, 10:54 pm
Burns supper. Happy Burns night! # 25th January 2005, 9:24 pm
Where was desktop search when we needed it? Did you know Win XP and 2000 have a half-decent full text indexer built in? # 25th January 2005, 4:11 pm
BBC Radio mp3 takes off. It seems the podcasting trial has been going pretty well. # 25th January 2005, 11:23 am
BBC re-launches internet radio—everything in one place (via) Listen Again is fantastically useful. # 25th January 2005, 11:22 am
Google Video Search: firefox. Recent mentions of Firefox on American TV. # 25th January 2005, 9:52 am
THE FLICKR SONG. Oh Dear God... # 24th January 2005, 10:01 pm
Gamma correction—Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Mac users: activate expose on this page for some trippy alisaing effects. # 23rd January 2005, 4:36 pm
Tiger Pics (via) Screenshots from a development build of OS X Tiger. # 23rd January 2005, 1:12 am
Guardian style guide. Interesting to poke around in. # 22nd January 2005, 11:19 pm
PyCon DC 2005 Preliminary Program (via) Looks like a great lineup. # 22nd January 2005, 2:51 pm