The good news is, Netflix WatchNow will now work on the Mac. The bad news? It only works with Silverlight 2, which only works within the Intel architecture. Should be no problem, to Engadget: Unfortunately for super-duper late adopters, the software will only work with Intel-based Macs, so if you’ve been holding onto a G3 for […]
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Rusty flowers
Finally, after a summer of high humidity and warm temperatures, and seemingly endless crowds, yesterday brought a return to the St. Louis that I know and love. The temperatures were cool, the sky darkly overcast, and with the threat of rains, the people stayed home. A perfect day to visit the Missouri Botanical Gardens. The […]
Drupal provides a way to list out postings by taxonomy term, but not necessarily by vocabulary, directly. I’ve been using a module, vocabindex, to provide a web page that lists out the taxonomy terms for a vocabulary, but it doesn’t provide exactly what I’m looking for: a way to display posts by vocabulary, in addition […]
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Kindle Coupon
I imagine this will kick start Kindle sales: MobileRead reports that Oprah Winfrey calls the Kindle her favorite gadget. All due respect to the Big O, I could care less, except that there’s supposedly a $50.00 coupon associated with her favoritism, which you can use when you buy a Kindle. The coupon code is OPRAHWINFREY, lasting […]
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Extensibility and markup, again and again
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Proving that the issues with extensibility will never go away until faced, and resolved: Anne van Kesteren: Concerns that HTML5 does not have distributed extensibility. That is, namespaces. What people seem to want is to extend the browser with hundreds of markup languages. (How this keeps things simple to answer […]