When I was a child growing up in the suburbs of Vancouver, we conducted regular drills to rehearse for what we believed was the inevitability of a nuclear assault at the hands of an evil Communist empire half a world away. This was the height of the cold war, and as...
Recently I lost a bunch of data from a MacBook Pro that spun off of the corner of my sofa onto my hardwood floor. Ouch. My last backup had been about a month earlier so I lost some pretty important stuff I was working on at the time and had to spend hours mungeing the...
Interesting that Raskin is essentially using the open source community to promote his book. Obviously not his sole intent, but an interesting lateral benefit.. -Ian. —– http://humane.sourceforge.net/the/ Jeff Raskin: About The Humane Environment There is a...
Despite the signatories to Don Box’s paycheck he is correct in assessing that HTTP has reached the end of its usefulness as a protocol for delivering applications. Even Tim Berners-Lee thinks so. Of course, HTTP will always be with us for the simple accessing...
Okay, PDF rocks. But it kinda sucked for a while because if you made a PDF and threw it up on the web, nobody would really be able to find it unless you wrote a really good description of it in HTML. Old bits, but I read this in the Industry Standard last night on a...
