BurningbirdI still find the reaction regarding Mena Trott’s and Ben Metcalf’s little contretemps at Les Blogs to be very interesting. The concensus seems to be that Trott lost it, and Metcalf was cool under fire, especially considering that he was unexpectedly told to stand up during this conference. In comments to Metcalf’s post, Dave Rogers: Although I’m no fan of IRC backchannels […]
We’re having our first snow of the season today. The level is already at 2 inches and could reach 4. We won’t get what the Northest is expecting to get tomorrow, but I like levels of snow that dust your toes, rather than dust your nose. first snow The first snow of the year always cheers […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The movie is Dogora or to give it its full Japanese name, Uchu Daikaijû Dogora (“Space Monster Dogora”). Made in 1964, it was created by the famed studio, Toho: the studio responsible for most of the creature feature flicks, including the more well known Godzilla. Dogora is about a monster from space that, […]
Someone had described my cross-browser DHTML objects recently as old code that bends over backwards to be compatible with old crusty browsers…, when compared with up-to-date and well maintained modern libraries. I found it odd that objects that have managed not to break for six years of DHTML generations are ‘bad’ where new ones, barely tested, in beta, […]
Congratulations to Jeneane for getting a new and interesting gig, blogging strategist for a new startup: BubbleShare. Congratulations to AKMA for being a priest for nineteen years and for writing about soup. Finally, congratulations to my old, moltychicken friend, Stavros the Wonderchicken for finally writing to his weblog again; not to mention creating a rather interesting way of screwing up Technorati’s blog counts. […]