“Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames
Wednesday, 30 March 2005
Just added a 512M module to the Powerbook for a total of 1G (was 768M), for a pittance — $79! — courtesy of Amazon. Everything’s much snappier, especially Eclipse; I feel more productive already. If you have an Aluminum Powerbook,...
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Friday, 25 March 2005
After a deeply wounding comment about this site’s design from SOMEONE WHO KNOWS WHO THEY ARE last week, I’ve refreshed the mnot.net stylesheets and front page design. OK, truth be told I was working on it anyway. Still, the...
Monday, 21 March 2005
A while back, I wrote up a description of a pattern for avoiding messages like “click submit only once.” I didn’t do much after that, because I’ve been a bit busy, and because I wanted to do some implementation...
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Thursday, 17 March 2005
I’m happy to announce that version 0.7 of sparta.py, a simple API for RDF, is now available. As always, feedback and suggestions are appreciated. My goal for this release was to clean up cardinality. In particular, I wanted to...
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Thursday, 17 March 2005
I personally like Airbus planes, especially the A340, but Risks Digest has given me a reason to avoid some of them; [A]fter (an earlier) disaster, more than 20 American Airlines A300 pilots asked to be transferred to Boeings, although...
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Saturday, 5 March 2005
Carlos sent me an interesting summary page about the Bay area housing bubble. I wish there were more links substantiating the assertions there (a few ring false), but it is thought-provoking. I happen to have a bit more specific data;...
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Wednesday, 2 March 2005
So, you’ve got some data that you need to give to somebody else, and you want to use XML to do it; good for you, you’ve seen the light / hopped on the bandwagon / drunk the Kool-Aid. At...
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