Paul Ford on Websites
The best thing to hope for is that in time and with much more effort the work will become transparent to its users, that it will be taken for granted. That’s life with websites.
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The best thing to hope for is that in time and with much more effort the work will become transparent to its users, that it will be taken for granted. That’s life with websites.
I’m incredibly unconcerned that Leopard (Apple’s upcoming point revision of its OS X operating system) has been delayed. As long as they fix the finder (!!!!), I’ll have nothing really important to criticize in OS X.
This great quote from a discussion at Slashdot sums it up (edited slightly for clarity):
Apple just can’t seem to match Microsoft’s superior delay history. Microsoft has already astounded the world by an amazing THREE YEAR delay between the original Vista release date and the actual release; this impressive delay is one of the longest delays for a product that actually eventually made it out of the front door instead of dying…
And here’s Apple, trying to out-do Microsoft, and the best then can do is delay Leopard for three lousy months - and technically speaking, it’s not much of a delay since the original release date was “Spring 07”.
I mean, come on, Apple. Surely you can break something in Leopard to force a longer delay. Microsoft wins, hands down. Apple still lags way behind MS on viruses, as well. With my Windows machine, unpatched, I have THOUSANDS of viruses that can infect my machine if I want to. Apple just doesn’t give me that ability. Maybe they just don’t care.
Hamster powered shredder - Put your hamster to good use!
Scientists Create World’s Largest Novelty Atom - The best thing about the Onion is their ability to keep funny turns of phrase flowing throughout an entire article like this.
As soon as the image of that atom came on the screen, everyone just lost it. I nearly knocked over my model of a constitutional isomer, I was laughing so hard.
Christopher O’Riley covers Nick Drake - I haven’t heard of Nick Drake, but after attending O’Riley’s Radiohead concert @ Orchestra Hall, I’m tempted to give this album a listen.
Currently: listening to “Stomp to My Beat” and pretending the floor is a DDR mat. I think I’m winning. 200 combo!
Connecting Skype to an old phone - I was telling Mykala about this idea I had; hook an old style rotary phone up to Skype, or at least have it ring when Skype rings. Looks like problem solved, at this link.
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