Category: Asides

  • “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay

  • Everything is better wrapped in bacon. “Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.”— Doug Larson

  • Oomph

    Microsoft recently released the Oomph Microformats toolkit and Emily drafted an excellent writeup on it.

  • Mobile Firefox Reaches Alpha 1, Offers Desktop Version for Testing

  • Cursebird: What the f#@! is everyone swearing about? You people kiss your mother’s with that mouth? ;)

  • Microsoft’s new Web Application Installer provides support for popular ASP.Net and PHP Web applications including Graffiti, DotNetNuke, WordPress, Drupal, OSCommerce and more. I’m really happy to see Microsoft moving in this direction. (ht: Matt)

  • SyntaxHighlighter Plus. Just enabled this on the site. It should make it easier for me to share code snippets from now on.

  • CS4 is out the door. I’m definitely going to upgrade. CS4 is jam-packed with new features and UI enhancements that will change the way you work.

  • Newspapers’ Web Revenue is Stalling. That’s because no one likes advertising or how much newspaper (and media sites in general) cram down your throat. When advertising takes up more area on a webpage than content, there is a serious problem.

  • Putting big trust on someone else, you’re solving three problems: you’re increasing the chance you’ll get your project done, you’re building a strong team, and, oh yeah, you get to sit there and watch and learn as someone deftly works in a place where you’re horrible. Rands in Respose: Horrible