Category: Asides

  • Safari 3.1 Released

    Safari 3.1 Released – new version has limited support for HTML5, embedded fonts via CSS and more. It’s a pretty solid release, but much more needs to be done to reduce the memory footprint of the app on Windows.

  • WordPress 2.5 Sneak Peek

    WordPress 2.5 Sneak Peek. I went ahead and upgraded to Release Candidate 1, just to test it out. So far, so good. It’s still in development, so be careful before you upgrade.

  • Paramount Adapting Dune Again

    Paramount Adapting Dune Again. As long as it doesn’t suck, I’m down.

  • Monkey See. Monkey Do.

    Radiohead hosts online video contest.

  • Radiohead offering was insincere

    Reznor: Radiohead offering was insincere, industry is inept. “…if you look at what they did, though, it was very much a bait and switch to get you to pay for a MySpace-quality stream as a way to promote a very traditional record sale.”

  • Firefox 3 Beta 4 Released.

    Firefox 3 Beta 4 Released. Still not fit for general public consumption. Probably worth downloading just to make sure things you’ve built and/or building don’t break in the latest version, though.

  • Nerdfotainment.

    Nerdfotainment. Another excellent piece by Rands. A must read.

  • gArchiver

    gArchiver: What happened? Yeah, and monkeys might fly out of my butt. The lesson to be learned from this debacle? Don’t install third-party apps with reckless abandon. Sure, they might look great on the surface, but they could put your private data at risk without you even realizing it.

  • Design is in the Details

    Design is in the details. I’ve been saying this for years. Great article.

  • Fire the Workaholics

    37Signals: Fire the workaholics. Been there, done that. I work a lot, but not as much as I used to. I get burned out pretty quickly when I work 60+ hr weeks. Burnout leads to sloppiness. Do I think workaholics should be fired? No. But I do think they need to re-evaluate why they’re spending…