Of course I didn’t forget that this is Cephalopodmas day! Others are also pointing this out, but I’ll give the tip of the tentacle to Laughing Squid for news about the new video of the giant squid, captured by a Japanese researcher. The video was of a smaller, immature giant squid, only about 11 feet long. Still, I […]
Month: December 2006
Tightening the data
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dare Obasanjo and I don’t always agree, but today I agree with him completely when he writes about the tightening of data from web services: The obvious reaction was to make the Google and del.icio.us announcements into a REST vs. SOAP or XML vs. JSON story since geeks like to turn every […]
Lifetime of discomfort
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. At a ‘celebrity’ graphic designer event, an audience member asked the all male participants the following question: Why do you — all three of you — suppose there are so few female graphic designers — or at least so few female ‘superstar’ graphic designers? Is there a glass ceiling in graphic design? […]
Adobe CS3 beta
If you’re interested in trying out the beta of Adobe’s CS3, download the trial version and generate a CS3 key from a CS2 serial number. I haven’t had time other than download the product on my Mac and open it and the new Bridge up to see if there are any obvious differences. After the new year, when […]
Third party
I can agree understand why this Springfield Newspaper opinion piece suggests we need to bring in a third party to negotiate with Ameren, but I disagree with much of what was written. We can’t leave aside that Ameren is a multi-billion dollar agency that put profits ahead of safety. It is not a Mom and Pop organization, […]
