One of my favorite blogs is Joel on Software. He wrote a great article about How Microsoft Lost the API War. Near the end of it he gets to the web and he writes what I’ve been saying for at least the last few years:
It’s not that Microsoft didn’t notice this was happening. Of course [...]
Get it while it is hot
I downloade Windows Media Player 10 beta a few days ago. I like it but as soon as I start it I see that my download goes from 0 to about 40kb/s. As soon as I close WMP it goes down to 0 again. I have no idea why it is behaving this way. Does [...]
David Hyatt wrote in the WHAT WG mailing list:
Our slider implementation (Safari) assumes a default precision of integer, and default min/max values of 0/100 respectively if omitted. I propose that these defaults be added to the specification so that it’s clear what values should be used if the values are omitted.
This most likely means [...]
While we are at it. Here is another classic verse, this time by Mr. Lif on the track “Home of the Brave” from the album “Emergency Rations”.
Headline: Bush steals the presidency
He needs the backing of the media what could the remedy be?
The country’s headed for recession reminiscent of the Great Depression
Are lives worth a world [...]
Immortal Technique said it in Obnoxious:
like pro lifers, that support the death penalty
and don’t talk about war, when niggaz know that your pus
a fucking hipocrit draft charger like George Bush
Since I was upgrader from 8/0.8 MBit/s ADSL to 13/13 MBit/s VDSL my network has been really crappy but today it hit an all time low. Take a look at this packet loss!
It seems the Mozilla Foundation is doing another blunder.
I’ll get back to these when I have more time but I feel that these are really important things so I’ll just post the links for them now.
The minutes from the W3C Workshop on Web Application and Compound Document are now online. Day 1. Day 2. These are still drafts and they will most likely [...]
I’m considering switching from Movable Type to WordPress. The main reason is that I fucking hate how MT has to rebuild everything all the fucking time. Why not build it upon first request and then cache it?
Wanted features:
Needs to run on BSD, Apache 2, MySQL or PostGreSQL (Perl, PHP, Mono, Whatever++)
Should be able to send [...]