Tag Archives: linkblog

And you just thought it was a myth

The Skype outage on August 16th
And there my friends, we have the first proof of the technological equivalent of the coordinated toilet flush.

Quote of the Day

From Kevin Gamble:
There is a lot more to building and supporting communities than installing software.
Amen to that.

More on how closed Facebook is

Dear Facebook,
What James said
Hotel California is particularly appropo I thought.
You lose nothing implementing feeds and an OpenID consumer - and you gain a lot. You’ve already shown you had a modicum of sense - but going only part way doesn’t cut it.
Now get with the program.
p.s. This will also be my last [...]

Quote of the Day

From Terry Chay:
Be honest about the consequences of your actions: whether it is the programming language you choose, a framework/no-framework you adopt, a design pattern you apply, or the choice to simply download someone else’s application and install it. Choose wisely. A lack of self-reflection leads to a poor choice and spells disaster.
I soooo wish [...]

The Dinner Table Rule

I’m in complete agreement with The Dinner Table Rule

Getting It

From Christopher Blizzard:
Learning requires the transparency that free and open source software provides.
People - and companies - that don’t get this have some learning to do. People - and companies - that purposefully fight against this idea aren’t just ignorant and ill-informed. They are corrupt.

Beat like a dead krzyzanowskisaurus

The dinosaurs wrapped up the badger campaign with today’s comic.
If you weren’t following along with the home game - here’s the wrap-up of all the badger related comics - because bad jokes (and dumb ideas) need to be run into the ground

Badgers
The Syndication Dream
Duel!
Safe Intarnets

Because Kittens (and Cows) are Cute

I just saw twitter error 500 on me - and saw their 500 error - which made me look for their 404 error too.
We so need to emulate these.
Only with cows with holes in their sides:

Warning! Warning Label Affixed

Clearly this is the best blog warning system yet (via Rui Carmo).
Of course, there’s still the badgers - which got James’ vote today

Fascinating Story

This article in the Washington Post might be one of the most interesting stories I’ve read in quite some time.
On that Friday in January, those private questions would be answered in an unusually public way. No one knew it, but the fiddler standing against a bare wall outside the Metro in an indoor arcade at [...]

wp-atom and wpLicense

Thanks to a couple of line changes in the wpLicense plugin - namely after line 384 - adding:
add_action(’atom10_head’, ‘cc_atom_head’);
and because of what is likely an output buffering issue somewhere - I had to change line 84 from:
link rel=”license” type=”text/html” href=”‘.licenseUri().’”
to:
link rel=”license” type=”text/html” href=”‘.get_option(’cc_content_license_uri’).’”
(yes, I need to debug this - it’s kind of a hack)
I now [...]

Science Project of the Day

Two New Zealand Girls catch Glaxo liars
I love it! Hooray for science projects!

Hooray Wisconsin!

Ars Technica: University of Wisconsin Decides Not to Pass Along RIAA Settlement letters (also at recording industry vs. the people)
“These settlement letters are an attempt to short circuit the legal process to rely on universities to be their legal agent,” Brent Rust, communications manager for the school’s Division of Information Technology
FANTASTIC!

Required Reading

Jakob Nielson - Life Long Computer Skills
Amen.

Why Crazy Apple Rumors Clearly Is Well Researched Journalism

I mean irregardless of the fact that they have the inside scoop on details about the Apple-Cisco iPhone agreement that no one else has - clearly they go places where no other journalist goes.
namely:
Cisco must Photoshop back in the Apple logo on the laptop being used by the guy on the company’s home page.

That might [...]

Quote of the Day

Peter Lacey’s 2nd Law of Computing:
Whenever the word ontology is used in a technical context, what is being promoted is likely of limited practical value.
Ain’t that the truth.

Site of the day

If you aren’t following Jessica Hagy’s “indexed” site, you are missing out.
This is much, much, much, much better than the popular (and why, I don’t know) gaping void site.
Today’s gem:

(please note: this does not describe my boss. It does indeed describe some other bosses I know however )

Zzzzzuh-ellular

Zune Phone To Also Suck
“The Zellular Phone Call is an iPhone killer,” said Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group.
This comment was followed by a long pause as reporters waited for some sort of support for this contention.
“Uh, I got nothing after that. Usually that’s enough to get me quoted.”
Ain’t that the truth

Best… printer…. names…. ever

From Terry Chay:
At work one of the printers is named “paperjam” and the other is “treekiller.”
I printed out my stuff on treekiller.
I so now want to ask NC Extension to name our group printer “PC Load Letter”
Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta.

Omni needs a urug

I subscribe to the Omni Mouth for a number of reasons, one I really, really like OmniGraffle, and two, the blog might be the absolute best example of a small company blog I’ve ever seen. The writers of it have style, pizzaz, and it’s just fun. Really fun. Although, pictures of star-nosed [...]