Monthly Archives: May 2007

Damn kids! Get off my web!

Scott Burkett, Stop Twittering and Go Solve a Problem: “Aside from aesthetically looking like something a 12 year old cobbled up, the entire tool seems utterly pointless to me.” For Scott, Twitter probably is pointless at first glance. And that’s because no one’s talking to him. Really, this should be a FAQ for all [...]

hack day in london!

Chances are good that I’ll be attending the Yahoo! Hack Day in London on June 16th & 17th to offer some del.icio.us representation. Thanks to my klutzy bus exit last September, I missed the Hack Day in Sunnyvale with Beck – hopefully a trip to the UK will ameliorate my regret in missing that [...]

Outsourced hoarding

Update (5/18): I am, of course, only an amateur hoarder. Be sure to check out this comment from professional-grade hoarder Jason Scott (in brief): “I agree with you in a tangential way. Outsourcing hoarding is a good idea, but you have to stay on top of the pros and cons of it, just [...]

Cilantro of the web

Trying out the OPML Editor again, pasting in an entry composed over at my OPML blog. “When the tool spits out some bundle of shining Deployment-Ready Code Artifact, do you get something that can be mashed up, styled, scripted, indexed by search engines, read aloud by screen readers, read by humans, customized with greasemonkey, reformatted for [...]

scribbling in ink

This is a recurring issue for me: Although I’ve yet to find anything I actually like overall, I keep thinking I need some tumblelog software that’s more inviting for quick quips and quotes. Sometimes, the affordances of the WordPress posting page make me think I should really write more than a few lines [...]