Year: 2005
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A9 Local primes the pump for a “localpedia” (but all on Amazon)
Wouldn’t you think a “localpedia” (a Wiki tied to a community) is a good idea? The domain is taken, or I would have registered it, but I wonder if Wikipedia will extend to this domain of locale, with the model of building a better yellow pages. In all honestly, that makes more sense than the…
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Book: Sharpe’s Prey
Sharpe’s Prey jumps Richard Sharpe forward a couple of years from Trafalgar, to 1807, with the British invasion of Copenhagan. I never knew about this event. The Brits didn’t think the Danes were an enemy. Yet the Danish naval fleet was the only one left in Europe, and England had to deny the fleet to…
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Sometimes life feels this way
From my friend Karl: If you don’t think life is a competition, you must be losing. I think he was kidding… but only partly.
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So glad to not make this list
Via Seth Godin, the The Biggest Web Design Mistakes of 2004 from Vincent Flanders. I was pleased to not find any of the sites I’m affiliated with presented as examples of what can go wrong.
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More details on the radioShark
Via Slashdot, I found this Ars Technica review of the radioShark. Solid details over four pages, with ample illustrations. I didn’t learn much, to be honest, but I read the whole thing hoping that maybe there was a workaround for the main issue: no guide. There doesn’t appear to be, although in the Slashdot thread,…
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This essay can’t be read enough by those of us building websites
From the bookmarks… The Importance of Being Permanent is a guest post by Simon Waldman on the Press Think blog from Jay Rosen. What makes great news organizations great is not simply the work they do on a given day, but the accumulated quality of work done over weeks, months and years. The hardest part…
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Book: Sharpe’s Trafalgar
I bounced into the Sharpe series because my previous “ship” (the Aubrey-Maturin series) had landed. But with Sharpe’s Trafalgar, I find myself afloat with a fictional Napoleonic-era English warrior once more. How does the amry hero conveniently end up in the biggest naval battle of the century? Bernard Cornwell wrote on his website: Sharpe has…
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Multiple iPods is not a problem
I asked a Lazyweb question a couple of weeks ago, wondering aloud whether multiple iPods worked well together on a single computer. Ryan Ozawa found an affirmative answer on the Apple site, and my cousin confirmed this with another family member. Of course, I still don’t have a single iPod, and don’t see a need,…
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Book: Sharpe’s Fortress
The San Francisco Public Library came through with flying colors, sending me email notice that all three of the Sharpe novels I had requested were awaiting my pickup a couple of weeks ago. The first one I read was Sharpe’s Fortress. This novel inserts Richard Sharpe, our British military hero, into the assault on Gawilghur,…
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Apple switches from dates to numbers for software updates
Until now, Apple’s Software Updates for Mac OS X have been labeled with a date, such as Security Update 2004-12-02. Yesterday, Apple released Security Update 2005-001, the first with a new numbering scheme. Not sure, but may just be security updates, not all software updates… not that it matters. I noticed this myself, and then…