BurningbirdI was playing around with my server earlier, trying out some fun and interesting sounding new techie toys. Unfortunately, the new techie toys required ImageMagick. Those of you with a Unix background are probably going “Oh, No!” about now. I knew I was pushing the bubble with this one, but you only live once. Damn […]
I can’t wait until I get up in the morning and pop on to my machine so I can download 50+ spam emails. One of the funnest games of the day is to try and find “real” email among all of the junk. When I find one, I holler out “email whack!” As you can […]
I have a confession to make: I’ve not always been a strong voice for standardization. As much as I believe in the necessity of standards, I was so concerned when the Mozilla organization was strongly chastised for spending time on new innovations rather than implementation of standards that I wrote an article, The Tyranny of Standards, about this […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Earlier in the week I made a statement about Radio being centralized that caused some interest and reaction from the Userland folks and others. A lot of back and forth and intense discussion in the comments associated with the postings here and here and continued at Backup Brain (here and here) as well as at Doc […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Considerable discussion related to my assertion that Radio and Blogger are centralized web publication systems. First, a caveat — the use of decentralization that I made yesterday had to do with web publication without dependence on a centralized tool-specific server that you can’t, personally, control. It had nothing to do […]