“Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames
Wednesday, 24 September 2003
Tim Bray wonders what the difference between an RSS feed delivered via HTTP and an e-mail folder (e.g., via IMAP) is; I've wondered the same thing myself. As far as I can tell; * Subscribing to an RSS feed is...
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Thursday, 18 September 2003
The BBC reports an... inconceivably large rodent, aka "Guinea-zilla". They "... could have run in huge packs," and weighed 700kg. 700kg?!? I'm going to have nightmares tonight......
Saturday, 13 September 2003
Next time somebody says "let's install Bugzilla to track that" consider Roundup instead (unless you *like* painful, bloated software). Roundup is well-architected, modular, extensible, small in footprint, and Pythonic. You can run it on top of any number of back...
Saturday, 13 September 2003
I shudder when I see these words. Everyone I’ve asked has, at least once, gotten two orders of something online (personally, I’ve had the SonyEricsson store ship *three* duplicate orders); “Click Submit Only Once” is intended to stop that. The...
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Friday, 12 September 2003
I was in Stockholm earlier this summer as a stopover on the way home from Helsinki. One morning, Jorgen and I were walking along Strömkajen, waiting for a ferry, when a well-dressed man walked by, just a few feet away....
Wednesday, 10 September 2003
One of the most interesting examples of architecture I’ve seen in a while is the nearly-finished Swiss Re building(aka 30 St. Mary Axe) in London, also known as “The Gherkin” by locals there. I first saw it wondering the streets...
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Wednesday, 10 September 2003
Our problems continue. We took advantage of the $39.90 restocking fee to upgrade to the new 20G iPod; no difference at all in the battery behaviour (although the circle pad has a different design, IMHO spiffier; A doesn't like it...