August 2004
Aug. 3, 2004
Early adoption, and Airport Express cut-outs
I don’t know quite how I did it, but in the past 48 hours I’ve become an Apple early adopter. I spent the weekend in Minnesota, where a visit to the Mall of America (aka Unholy Temple to Consumerism) resulted in a visit to the Apple store, and a visit to the Apple store resulted in a shiny new fourth generation 20 GB iPod. Of course, the seven and a half hour journey back south would go so much faster with an iTrip to play with, so I picked one of those up as well.
[... 477 words]Aug. 4, 2004
Low Morale (via) The Creep video is simply astounding. Bandito strikes again.
My photos from Minnesota (via) With some pretty flowers, ala Tim Bray.
Aug. 5, 2004
Web design from Scratch (via) A tutorial that actually talks about design? Surely not.
California’s SUV Ban (via) Today’s SUV related amusement.
Amazon’s Web Services and XSLT. The Amazonn REST API lets you feed in the URL of an XSLT document.
John Kerry, the man who uncovered Iran-Contra. I’m surprised the democrats haven’t used this in their campaign.
Aug. 6, 2004
A look at Delicious Library 3.0. Scan bar codes from your book/DVD collection with an iSight, it grabs the details from the Amazon API.
Introducing dbagg3, an Atom-powered client/server aggregator. Way smart aggregator built on top of Atom and XSLT.
Perl hullabaloos. “Pythonistas are peaceful, have-their-glasses-on-a-little-string types, like hobbits or the Dutch.”
Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty. Cloned kittens! Far cuter than sheep.
Aug. 7, 2004
ENIAC close-up photos (via) They don’t build computers like they used to.
Aug. 8, 2004
Python will assimilate you (via) “From the wind-up school of technology strategizing”
Help Darfur (via) Donate to the World Food Programme.
Aug. 9, 2004
Quantum Sleeper (via) Truly bizarre safe-room-as-a-bed thing.
First look at MSN blogs. Phil Ringnalda investigates Microsoft’s first blog application, flames their terrible HTML.
August Nine. Today is the anniversary of the atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki.
Tragedy of the network commons. It’s not just BugMeNot: 75% of Dartmouth college students share passwords as well.
Social networking sites: a postmortem. “... they introduce awkward social situations that did not otherwise exist, or were at least far less explicit.”
Sudan: The Passion of the Present. Blog covering the crisis in Sudan.
Aug. 10, 2004
Borat meets James Broadwater (via) Hilarious.
Limbaugh chastises Lawrence, Edwards. Rush Limbaugh slags off Lawrence. Residents not amused.
PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Officially Goes Beta (via) New features include win32 support, point-in-time recovery.
IE in Windows XP SP2. An overview of the new security changes.
Aug. 11, 2004
U.S. Military Clears A-Team Of Charges (via) About time too!
Aug. 12, 2004
She Said Yes ! Scott Johnson is getting married. Congratulations!
The anatomy of a smear campaign (via) Fascinating insight in to the political process.
Johansen breaks AirPort Express encryption (via) DVD Jon strikes again.
Jon Udell: del.icio.us. Jon is doing some interesting things with the del.icio.us tagging system.