BurningbirdBeware the Phil! Protect your textareas! Phil Ringnalda, responding from his semi-regular weblog hiatus to a quip by Anil Dash about being silenced: While you were watching mailing lists, I landed three Firefox patches, including a FF2 blocker, and one that was once a 1.5 blocker in two different bugs, though we gave up on it later. There’s […]
I live by a simple philosophy: I never say anything of a live person I wouldn’t be willing to repeat after they’re dead. And I would never say anything of a person after their death that I wouldn’t be willing to say of them while they’re alive.
Gary Turner: Maybe this is when it all unfurls and collapses in on itself, blogging having been completely consumed and repurposed by a cabal of MSM and faux-hip-and-late-to-the-party-but-hell-let’s-trash-it-anyway PR bods – and blogging’s core hacker ethic is finally sullied beyond sauvage after one too many commercial pisses in the proverbial punchbowl.
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave Winer has been talking about retirement. Perhaps he really should. This is about as ugly as it can get in this environment. This is what happens, too, when someone with power and money, like Winer, can tromp all over another who has less of both, and get away with it […]
I recently upgraded my Dell laptop to Windows XP — the last upgrade for this particular computer until it needs to be turned into a pure Linux machine. As such, I could download the IE 7 beta. The very positive aspect of IE is the fact that PNG images actually work with this browser now, […]