Year: 2004
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Book: The Hundred Days
I finished Patrick O’Brian’s The Hundred Days a few weeks ago, and I don’t have the energy to spend much time commenting on it now. I’m knee deep in my next book (think Stephenson), and work has been busy. Anyway, this is #19, and I’ve only got one more left in the Aubrey-Maturin series. Too…
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Links: November 9, 2004
Time to clear out the Safari bookmarks bar once more. The ‘Purple Haze’, revisited reviews a cartogram of the presidential election votes. Thanks to hearing about the meme from Neil Turner, I’ve posted my desktop show and tell to Flickr. Here’s the global tag. Jon Gruber on the poof in MacOS X Gallery of stick-figure…
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Book: Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
A favorite of the Slashdot crowd, Paul Graham takes time to craft his words in ways which make my synapses smile. Many of the essays in his book Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age essays have appeared online previously. I’ve noted a couple before. The book collects fifteen essays, all springing from…
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Cool costumes and candy, what Halloween is all about
The days leading up to Halloween are a crescendo of excitement with young children in the house. As witness, I offer the following, overheard three mornings before the costumed, candy-filled parade. The boy is talking to his sister (who doesn’t yet reply): If we don’t get any sleep, we can’t go trick or treating, so…
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How prescient was William Gibson?
Northern California isn’t yet a separate nation-state, or economic superpower… although California as a whole is. But with all the different versions of a imagined geographies appearing around the web, you have to wonder if NoCal, as envisioned by William Gibson in Neuromancer (among other novels), will ever find a new place in the country…
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Which link got more clicks?
So Scoble points to both CNET News.com and Engadget for articles about the new Gateway MP3 player. I wonder which got more clicks?
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Email is a stack
Jeremy Zawodny asks “Is your email inbox a stack or a queue?” In simpler, less geeky terms… do you sort so new messages show up on top (stack) or bottom (queue) of your inbox? I’m all about the stack, both at work (Outlook) and at home (Mail). First, I like to know what’s new and…
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Number 1 for something, at least
So, in reading Neil Turner, I learn about Silktide’s SiteScore. Free tool for analyzing your website on usability, popularity, and other metrics… both qualitative and quantitative. Like everyone else, I wanted to know where I stacked up, so www.pencoyd.com/clock went under the magnifying glass. The score? 6.4. Of course, the design got a 9.0, which…
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Book: The Yellow Admiral
Now, in addition to the pile of books upstairs waiting to be read, I have a (smaller) stack of books next to the computer waiting to be blogged. Time to knock the pile down by one volume, with number 18 in the Aubrey-Maturin series, The Yellow Admiral. As it’s been a few weeks, I will…
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If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers…
I’ve been here before. Probably on both sides, if I’m honest with myself. However, building web sites and applications does not require reading that far into the future. Fortunately!