BurningbirdSeth Finklestein provided great coverage on the recent controversy over Wikipedia editor/community manager “Essjay” (one, two, three, four, five, and six). The gentleman in question misrepresented himself as a tenured professor, both in an interview and in Wikipedia. Rather than show him the door, Jimmy Wales defended him–boys will be boys or some rot. It was only when Wales found […]
I watched my first movie last night through Netflix’s “Watch Now” feature. I learned via Gizmodo that this feature is available for everyone, just by clicking a link in the accounts page. This is an effective way to roll this feature out, until it’s available for all accounts automatically in June: if you know what it is, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Here’s a perfect example of how the computer field is broken: In a post at Coding Horror, based on earlier posts at Imran on Tech and Raganwald, the author parrots what the others state, that programmers can’t program. With lots of exclamation points. Why make such a breathtakingly grandiose claim? Because of what happens in […]
I’m not sure why I’m getting 404 log entries for pages that WordPress serves. The material that mentions this online this seems confused. If anyone has any suggestions, I have ears enough. I think I have all my redirects, other than managing a 401 document, which Phil suggested. That’s what’s causing the conflict between WordPress’ htaccess that ate […]
Anne Zelensky attended the recent Adobe Engage. She writes of her experience, being one of the few women present: There were slights throughout the day: a mention of “granny mode” for a beginner’s big fonts mode of some Adobe software, a comment from some developer along the lines of “our users aren’t technically astute, they’re mature […]