BurningbirdDare Obasanjo writes: Repeat after me, a web page is not an API or a platform. Versioning APIs is hard enough, let alone trying to figure out how to version an HTML website so screen scrapers are not broken. Web 2.0 isn’t about screenscraping. Turning the Web into an online platform isn’t about legitimizing bad practices […]
Excerpted from the Humane Society article After the flood, animals find way to survive in the Big Easy. Adrift in this floating living room, the golden-coated pit bull found shelter in the only place the water couldn’t reach: a black-metal frame encasing the air conditioning unit in a nearby window. At least that’s where the rescue […]
As I was fortuitously reminded, Serenity opens up in a few short weeks: September 30th. I and my roommate have decided we both wanted to see it on the day it comes out, but the where is still open. I also found out that Archon 29 the big St. Louis Fiction and Fantasy convention is going on […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Oh, yes. That’s what we needed: another one of these. I searched on Missouri and then had to wade through pages of real estate ads. From the review, I gather it searches blogs based on those pinging the ‘popular’ ping servers. The same servers that bring every comment spammer in the […]
My roommate came home this afternoon and asked when the bush on the corner had been removed. I had just been downstairs and when I looked out the window, the small, sickly bush on the corner of the dirt in front of our place was still there; still stubbornly hanging on, even if the management […]