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Archive for November, 2005

Heee’s baaack…

I used to subscribe to a couple of the W3C mailing lists. Around this time in 2002 a master Troll named Shelby Moore started popping up on some of them trying to bait the innocent with various topics. Finally he got a rise out Daniel Glazman and others at www-style with some Troll Baiting about […]

The quick and the dead…

Booked. It’s going to be a big one. The cheapest, closest hotel (and best deal—good rooms and great free network) and the most expensive hotel are already booked out. Which tells you something, The Four Seasons is not usually booked out for the Interactive/Film week this early. Also, sadly, the magical San José Hotel was […]

Fuck Sony BMG

What a bunch of dickheads.

Why these guys don’t get that – it is easier to steal their music than buy it so if they make it easier to buy it then more people won’t steal it – really mystifies me. What is it about human behaviour (or water) that they don’t understand?

Apple and reliability?

Adrian, did something bad to his new powerbook—Owwch!—so he’s having an understandable little rant.

I mostly agree, Apple Hardware/Quality Assurance has become more unreliable in the last couple of years (I’ve been buying a new Apple computer every couple years since 1988). Possibly it is a combination of them moving manufacturing ever deeper into the third […]

This Old House

When web designers discuss their craft, they almost always focus on how to do a thing, rather than what things should or should not be done. As an industry, we are more like “This Old House” than Architectural Digest.
Jeffrey Zeldman. June 29, 2004

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