Wednesday, September 24 2003
RSS and E-mail
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...
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Saturday, September 20 2003
Seen this week's Economist?
Concise and witty, as always....
Thursday, September 18 2003
A rodent of *truly* unusual size
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, September 13 2003
Roundup
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...
Click Submit Only Once
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);...
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Friday, September 12 2003
Anna Lindh
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...
Wednesday, September 10 2003
The Gherkin
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”...
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iPod update
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...