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Friday, April 22, 2005 Link
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I occassionally find it a bit of a struggle to come up with reasonably interesting (and dubiously clever) domain names each and every week. Other times, these things just write themselves. See how convenient the title of my previously post was? Like magic, the available domain name of the week is macrodobedia.com. As an extra bonus, macrodobedia registers absolute zero on the Googlehit scale this evening. Let's see how long that lasts.
I'd like to share a couple of snicker-encouraging tidbits found amidst the commentary and analysis of Adobe devouring embracing Macromedia. The excruciatingly witty Mr Gruber once again had me giggling like a schoolgirl with this wonderful translation of the requisite public relations spin. If you've seen this already, you know exactly what I mean. If you haven't, please enjoy. And taking the prize (... or cake or jar of preserves ...) for the single most enjoyable comment regarding this imminent merge and purge has to go to Matt Haughey for the following gem: "I guess this means my jrun errors will look nicer, eventually." Heh.
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 Link
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With Tiger growling on our doorstep and the two hundred or so new features to consider, did you happen to notice that Apple has also renamed Rendezvous in the process? Say bonjour to Bonjour? Pardon my French... but ce qui la baise? On some level, the new name makes sense. Like all good networking techniques, you want to introduce yourself and say 'hello' before deciding on a meeting place or 'rendezvous' point. It's not unlike tossing off a friendly 'Hey sailor!' prior to negotiating a price for the evening's entertainment. I'm sorry, what was your name again...?
Wednesday, April 13, 2005 Link
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As you get older, there are signs and occurrences that present themselves which make you realize that you are gradually becoming more and more like your parents. One of those signs plopped into our mailbox today. The Alberta Motor Association sent me a Quarter Century Member sticker in the mail. Apparently, I've had a driver's license in my wallet for over 25 years. I'm sure I just finished that Driver's Ed course for a few extra high school credits and a discount on my insurance. I must have lost track of the time somewhere along the way. Hmmm, that's another sign right there.
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Monday, April 11, 2005 Link
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Neil Kandalgaonkar popped into my view last month through his intriguing 50 people see... image blending project. Apparently sitting on his laurels is difficult for Neil, because he has just unveiled Lickr, an experimental interface for Flickr that replaces the standard Flash-based image display you know and love with one implemented entirely through HTML and JavaScript. This admitted 'hack' works only with Firefox and requires the Greasemonkey user script extension. A small price to pay if Flash gives you the usability hives. Perhaps the most interesting thing about Lickr is that it provides tinkerers with the beginnings of a JavaScript Flickr API, which as Neil points out, "... might be a good starting point for other browser-based projects." No doubt about that.
Tuesday, April 05, 2005 Link
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Well, knock me over with a verbose markup validator. Our standard issue Jeffrey has been spotted dabbling in a very bloggish way. Please make a note of Apartness, Mr Zeldman's alter ego digeratum. Gosh, he's got comments and everything. I keep telling people that parenthood causes one to attempt things that have otherwise been avoided in the past. Case in point. Now, if we can just convince him to start using his damn Flickr account.
Five years and just over 1,800 posts ago, I began to jot down bits and snippets in a weblog. This weblog, in fact. Reflecting on this anniversary, I've come to the stark realization that one hell of a lot of text (based on opinion, fact, self-reflectance, or what have you...) has been tapped out through these fingertips. Has my focus changed? Not really. What was being served on the daily menu way back when? Here are a few choice cuts from my very first month of vintage bloggery.
On domain names...
Tuesday, April 18, 2000 - "In the self serving, random mention department, I noticed while parsing my referrer log (just try using that line at a party...) that my domain name of the week is 'pretty frickin awesome' according to GeekLife. Gosh, I'm feeling so parsed now, I think I'm blushing."
On user interface...
Thursday, April 20, 2000 - "Jakob Nielsen gets another 1,700 words of fame on adobe.com under the somewhat oxymoronic subhead 'Web curmudgeon, voice of the user'. Hopefully it's not just me, but I really prefer to have someone other than a 'curmudgeon' representing my usability fears and online anxieties, thank you very much."
On browsers...
Thursday, April 20, 2000 - "With the recent rash of revamped browsers making their debut, an article at Webmonkey entitled Bittersweet Releases offers a bit of used car lot commentary on the current trend of buffing up the browser chrome, hoping that no once notices that the engines are missing."
On Macintosh...
Monday, April 17, 2000 - "Computerworld reports that millions of obsolete PCs enter the waste stream each year. I am convinced that this is the real reason that the calculated market share of Windows-based PCs is so huge. I'll agree that the raw number of Windows boxes is significantly larger than that of the Macintosh installed based, but the numbers are inflated because Macs stay in use longer and are not obsoleted en masse like their inferior counterparts are. Is my bias showing yet?"
On Microsoft...
Monday, April 24, 2000 - "Microsoft's buns are smack dab in the middle of the furnace this week, and everybody and their dog wants a turn at cranking up the thermostat. Does anyone believe that something like divesting Office is actually going to happen? As much as I love to see them sweat profusely from every pore, my gut says that they'll get off with not much more than a nasty burp in their valuation."
On Newton...
Wednesday, April 19, 2000 - "InfoNewt, my news bucket of choice covering left-for-dead digital assistants, mentioned that work has resumed on hacking together a WaveLan driver for the Newton. Hiroshi Noguchi of Driver Labo has already reverse engineered code for previously unsupported ethernet cards, and now he's taking on the same wireless hardware that's used in Apple's networkadelic AirPort. Technically, if this thing works, I'll be able to serve web pages off my Newton wirelessly from anywhere in the office. How cool is that?"
On typography...
Tuesday, April 18, 2000 - "A gorgeous new type site typophile.com has just been launched that will please even the most persnickety fontheads. Lovingly built with a bucketload of Flash by Jared Benson, and chock full of delicious instructional goodness prepared by the one and only Jonathan Hoefler, typophile.com is aiming to be a vast resource of all things technical, æsthetic, motivational, discussable, and kernable relating to type design and type designers. Yum."
Shall we review? After five years of near-daily blathering, contextualizing, ranting and linking, the current state of equivalent affairs reads like this... The domain name of the week is still very much around. Jacob Nielsen (and his site) still get under my skin. Browsers have developed into a slightly less annoying day-to-day adventure. Macintosh, love. Newton, love. Typophile, love. And if nothing else, Microsoft has been a constant stitch in my side - excelling in its ability to both entertain and aggravate the hell out of me.
Five more years of entertainment and aggravation anyone? Why not?
Monday, April 04, 2005 Link
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If you're not able see any of my Recently Flickr'd images at the moment (or were Flickrless at some other point today), it appears that a sporadic DNS gremlin has been yanking their tail. I wasn't able to load any images served from the Flickr site via my office connection, but here at the home box things are fine. That sure smells like propagation flitsu in the domain name mojo to me. For the curious, additional discussions and other roundabout explanations can be found in this this thread.
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