Sheila Lennon did her first podcast, related to an article her newspaper is doing on the legend, Sister Rosetta Tharpe. It’s a nice mix of voice, story, and music, and I have to admit, there might be something to all of this podcasting stuff. I’ve had a couple of people ask where my podcasts are. All I […]
Month: March 2005
AJAX: The all-purpose cleaner
I’ve been hearing quite a bit about Ajax, the new wonder technology lately, and finally decided to take some time to check it out. I followed the link to the Adaptive Path essay on Ajax, and started reading through the writing until I came to the diagram showing an “Ajax Engine”, as part of the new innovation. […]
Yahoo released the beta of the Yahoo Creative Commons Search allowing us to search among CC licensed material. Since CC licenses are recorded using a standardized meta language and syntax *cough* RDF/XML *cough* it’s more a matter of just checking for this information in the process of their normal operations. There’s still a lot missing. First of […]
Behold the lowly toilet
Charles from Disinfotainment is posting videos of various aspects of Japanese culture, including this this one on a program to upgrade bathrooms within the educational system. What’s interesting about the program is that the students have a say in how the bathrooms are designed. In addition, they also have to maintain the bathrooms. I imagine that the […]
Creaky stuff
I’m working on some components of Wordform in the next few days that could impact on weblog viewing and/or your comments. One of the downsides for modifying a ‘live’ application–but a great way to test. However, if you write a long comment, you might want to copy it into the clipboard before posting. Also, if […]
