Dumping photo disc. The birthday cake my roommate got me last week. Zoe, giving me the ‘eye’. Squirrel nest and today’s first frozen rain.
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The discussion thread just mentioned in the last story is also a good demonstration of what can happen when newspapers and other localized publications open up discussion threads. In particular, the St. Louis Today site, which runs its weblogs using WordPress, doesn’t put much in the way of restrictions on comments. What’s happened is a group of […]
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Amazon, Best Buy, Sears and ‘ware the Season
An update on my recent difficulty with Amazon: I received the product, but the company still showed it as ‘in process’, to be shipped in January. It took four emails and finally a phone call to get this one removed so that I wouldn’t get shipped another. On the other hand, when we opened the second season […]
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Beautiful photos but less happy story
I also wanted to post a link to Mike Golby and his beautiful photos of South Africa. Unfortunately, these may be it for a while, as his car was stolen today. Of the event he writes: The snaps I’ve been able to catalogue over the past eight months have, frequently, felt like my documenting of the […]
Anne writes today on the coming proliferation of applications combining Ajax and Flash, and where the direction may go: What tools will be important, if hybrid Ajax + Flash + Java browser apps are the future? Perhaps toolkits and frameworks that shield developers from having to know multiple languages, object models, and browser quirks, for example, OpenLaszlo, […]