BurningbirdAnother American business sold overseas. InBev has purchased Anheuser-Busch. The news isn’t surprising, and is not going to make the people of St. Louis very happy. The announcement in St. Louis Today sought to reassure folks about jobs, but it’s inevitable that jobs are going to be cut. More importantly, A-B has been an important and generous […]
Kathryn Barrett recently responded to an O’Reilly’s author who was unhappy about not having Safari Online access. I’ve seen these complaints before, which puzzle me because I’ve had Safari Online access since the online site was first launched. Which, I guess, means I’ve been an O’Reilly author for a long time. O’Reilly is also good about sending […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Some people are still “waiting” on the AP to deliver a definitive guide to what can or cannot be copied of the AP material without risk of a DMCA notice. We really don’t need to wait, nor do we need anything from the AP. We have copyright laws in this country, and […]
Protect your Naughties Seth Finkelstein has a timely Guardian article on Judge Kozinkski and his exposed naughty bits. I’m usually careful about making sure whatever I don’t want exposed to general access either is not located in a web accessible position, or is password protected. I don’t depend on robots.txt to ensure web bots don’t access or […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My editor at O’Reilly sent me a copy of Douglas Crockford’s JavaScript: The Good Parts, which I found to be both interesting and useful. The volume is slim, 153 pages in all, but packed full of information about JavaScript—the good parts and the bad. I found myself nodding more than once, raising my […]