[Original Link] The scourge of web design is the “javascript:” link. Agreed. Javascript, if used at all, should augment normal web activity, not replace it.
Mark Pilgrim
June 27th, 2002
The name’s Bond. Osama Bond.
June 16th, 2002
[Original Link] John Naughton’s column about the changing role of MI5.
Two interesting pieces of WiFi news today
June 10th, 2002
From the New York Times: Etherlinx, a company based (of course) in a Silicon Valley garage, is developing a modified 802.11 for connecting the ‘last mile’ to homes. Or, in their case, up to the last 20 miles. Their box goes on the wall of the house and has two radio cards: one talking to their base stations and one doing WiFi into the home.
And from MacCentral:
IBM is rolling out large amounts of 802.11 on corporate campuses and is investigating the idea of national networks. It’ll be interesting if they ever get further than talking about it.
Blogger to RSS
June 10th, 2002
[Original Link] Aaron Swartz came up with a way of allowing Blogger sites to produce an RSS feed. Julian Bond has made a version of the service available on his site.
The collaboration of all these helpful people means that is much easier for me to read my friend Laura’s weblog. What a wonderful world!
Mark Pilgrim – How to deal with telemarketers effectively
June 7th, 2002
[Original Link] “Months go by and I don’t receive any telemarketing calls, but I just got off the phone with the nice people at Precision Telemarketing, who got my name and unlisted phone number from Time Warner Cable (against my explicit directions upon signup, and their explicit promises) in order to try to sell me a subscription for TV Guide. I used the JunkBusters anti-telemarketing script to tell them to put me on their “do not call” list. In accordance with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, Precision Telemarketing will not be calling me again on behalf of TV Guide or any other company for the next 10 years.”
XML Schemas are too complex and still have limitations
June 7th, 2002
[Original Link] Agreed.
MacStumbler
June 7th, 2002
[Original Link] Excellent! This is a basic version of NetStumbler for Mac OS X. (This is a bit of software which allows you to see some techie bits of information about 802.11 networks active in your vicinity.)
Cows from Kenya.
June 6th, 2002
[Original Link] I was born in Kenya. I’m proud of it.
TiVo Town or Sonicblue City?
June 6th, 2002
[Original Link] Wired News on the battle of the DVRs.
Time to blog on
June 5th, 2002
[Original Link] I’m a bit late in linking to Ben Hammersley’s article about weblogs. It’s a couple of weeks old, but still good despite being so outdated!
eMac
June 5th, 2002
[Original Link] In another interesting move, Apple have made the eMac available to everybody. This is an updated version of the old iMac, and is the cheapest Mac with a G4 processor.
WebDAV continued
June 5th, 2002
I was talking on Saturday about WebDAV and how Mac OS X could mount WebDAV shares as a native filesystem, albeit rather slowly.
Well, you can ignore that qualifier now; Apple have just released the 10.1.5 update to OS X and the most dramatic improvement is in the speed of WebDAV. Apple’s free online personal disk space, which they call iDisk, now runs at a usable speed.
Lots of other small but sweet improvements, too.
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