Year: 2003
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Amazing ad: Rube Goldberg for…
Check out this two minute long ad for a Honda stationwagon. The funny part is that I just watched it and I guess I remember, barely, that it’s an Accord. Here are some details about how it was made, in a Daily Telegraph (UK) article. 606 takes. Ouch. [via Scoble]
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Surprised it took this long
Here’s the first book about Napster. I’m surprised it took this long to come out, honestly. I was wondering if John Borland would write such a book. I’ll have to check in with my friend Rich and learn what he thinks of this telling of the tale, since Rich was there for much of it.…
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HYPs, in that order
Ten years ago, I would have been sitting in the six seat for H in this race (scroll down to the April 26th results). I honestly can’t remember whether or not we won 10 years ago, although I think my overall history at HYPs was not strong in my three years of the race… Sprints…
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Mornings
All my active energy is in the mornings. But my free time is in the evenings. Seems like a problem, doesn’t it?
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BOOK: The Skies of Pern
In my adolescence, I read many of Anne McCaffrey’s books, especially the Pern books, which are about a world where dragons and dragonriders are real (eventually explained as genetically bred from small lizards… whatever!). The last of the three books I picked up at the library a few weeks ago is the newest Pern book,…
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New contexts
Just replied to an email from a colleague from my college days, and it made me think about getting to know people in new contexts. I use the word colleague, but he was a friend, though never very close. We knew each other at the boathouse, without spending much time together for other reasons. But…
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Presentational integrity
Steve Yelvington explains why the move to Cascading Style Sheets is a business decision, not a technical/standards decision. …if all things were equal, all sites should be CSS2-compliant. But all things aren’t equal. He also describes the business needs of most news sites as ‘presentational integrity’ which he defines as knowing where content AND ads…
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Painfully slow webserver
The San Francisco Public Library website is oh-so-slow. I’m trying to find out if the local branch, or any branch, has a copy of Desolation Island by Patrick O’Brian (I’m almost done with the biography). But in both Safari and IE 5.2.2 on MacOS X, the results are empty and slow. I haven’t used the…
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Lafayette Project… still secret, but…
The Lafayette Project is still under wraps, but MegNut and two other early bloggers are the founders, and at least in what little they say, I think they are tackling a real problem. That problem is “We want to help readers browse weblogs when they *don’t* know what they’re looking for.” (The entire admittedly vague…
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Enabling comments
Should not be so hard to do, but I found the instructions, so we’ll see if this works.