Category Archives: Technology

Advertisers not getting the message

I read Trek Today, and TrekBBS — I’m a nerd, let’s move on. They both have annoying, moving, spining, jumping, singing, spitting, yelling ads that annoy me and give me a bad impression of the company the ad is for … Continue reading

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The Duke of URLs

Whitespace has a good discussion going on about directory structure and thinking about it in advance. Directory structure is important to system administrators, URL structure is important to designers. But, Chris, you say, aren’t the two inherently linked? Won’t /www/news/metro23.html … Continue reading

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Holiday point / counter

From the geeky smile / geeky warms my heart department: # Opening salvo # Counter-battery fire, target eliminated, IMHO Happy Holidays everyone! Have a great New Year!

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News industry should donate to open source projects

While the discussion on XUL vs. XAML has quieted down a bit, I think it’s worth bringing the issue to the attention of the news industry. I’m not sure if we’ll ever be in the business of making “news applications” … Continue reading

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Apple’s come a long way, so can we

Apple has come a long way from predictions of doom and gloom. One sign of this struck me when I hit The Washington Post‘s site today. They have a small teaser ad (that doesn’t animate, jump, flip, split, twirl or … Continue reading

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