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Eww, seriously...

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:29:46 -0400

Eww, seriously...: Yelp just lost one respect point.

Here we go...

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:19:16 -0400

Time to announce where I’m going to be doing my blogging post-ReadWriteWeb. The answer? SitePoint.

SitePoint is a huge web development community, and I’ve been brought on board as Lead Blogger to push out a new focus on their blogs toward web tech news and analysis (the same sort of stuff I’ve been writing for the past year over at RWW). I’ve been a regular on SitePoint’s forums since 2003, and I was a moderator there for about 4 years. So in a way, this is a homecoming for me.

Theoretically I’ll be contributing to all the SP blogs, but really I’ll mostly live in the ‘News & Trends’ category. My goal is to really own the main page of the site in terms of timely, blogged, web tech news content.

Children don’t want universal healthcare

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:59:45 -0400

Children don’t want universal healthcare

This is a terrible idea. If it goes through I forsee the number of spam email addresses I have to...

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:37:17 -0400

This is a terrible idea. If it goes through I forsee the number of spam email addresses I have to blacklist at my forum going up 2 trillion fold.

It's official

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:52:30 -0400

Richard MacManus just put up the official farewell post, so it’s now official: I’m leaving ReadWriteWeb.

I’ll still be blogging, just for another outfit. I’ll talk more about my future plans here soon (though enough people know them that it won’t be surprising if it leaks out). :)

Just a little ahead of his time...

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:49:48 -0400

Just a little ahead of his time...

We can all see into the future, apparently

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:52:21 -0400

We can all see into the future, apparently

Michael Chricton on death of newspaper industry circa 1993

Fri, 30 May 2008 14:04:27 -0400

Michael Chricton on death of newspaper industry circa 1993

Last night while writing this, Jurassic Park decided to relocate to my living room. I’m...

Sat, 24 May 2008 12:44:00 -0400

Last night while writing this, Jurassic Park decided to relocate to my living room. I’m talking about a bug. No, wait, not a bug. A prehistoric arthropod is more like what I went to battle with at 2am.

We’re talking 1.5 inches long, had about 50 legs, and moved really, really fast.

I broke my girlfriend’s shoe in my epic fight with this beastie. (I won, the thing is now vanquished. Made history like its prehistoric brethren.) As my friend Kelli remarked this morning though, I sure hope this thing doesn’t have family…

Now with comments... maybe

Thu, 22 May 2008 16:00:25 -0400

I added comments to my Tumblr blog today via Disqus. First impressions were very good. Adding the comments was a breeze, even for a not-super-technical person like myself. It took literally 3 minutes from sign up to deployment.

Everything seemed to be working fine, but now a mysterious issue has cropped up: comments are disappearing from the site. The comments still exist (see here for example), but on mockriot.com they’re gone.

Odd, to say the least. Comments are cool, but invisible comments? Not so useful.

Meet Ellery, my new kitty.

Wed, 21 May 2008 22:43:45 -0400

Meet Ellery, my new kitty.

I wonder why the World Wide Telescope site is using Flash for video. Did Microsoft forget they...

Tue, 13 May 2008 23:08:46 -0400

I wonder why the World Wide Telescope site is using Flash for video. Did Microsoft forget they created Silverlight?

Bioshock Movie

Fri, 09 May 2008 15:13:17 -0400

This could be the first video game to movie tansition that actually works. Bioshock has a cool story and has a great atmosphere. Plus, Gore Verbinski did a pretty good job turning a theme park ride into an entertaining summer blockbuster — and he has more to work with for this. Also, the writer of The Aviator is in talks to pen the screenplay… very cool.

Irony.

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:53:27 -0400

Irony.

10 inch EEE PC coming

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:35:17 -0400

10 inch EEE PC coming: Ok, we started at 7 inches, then 9 inches… now 10. Isn’t the point of a subnotebook to be smaller than a regular notebook? Asus, you have to stop making it bigger.

Clearly, they chose the wrong screen shot for this tool tip on...

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:35:33 -0400

Clearly, they chose the wrong screen shot for this tool tip on kayak.com (unless their goal was to make the advice sound silly).

The term “bitchmeme” is as obnoxious (or maybe even more) than the things themselves.

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:28:45 -0400

The term “bitchmeme” is as obnoxious (or maybe even more) than the things themselves.

Seriously, Alexa… you just figured out in the last couple of months that ranking data based...

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:19:05 -0400

Seriously, Alexa… you just figured out in the last couple of months that ranking data based solely on a toolbar that has long since been replaced by Google’s as the most popular browser toolbar has rendered your stats grossly inaccurate? (And I mean more so than every other public analytics data provider — all of which are inaccurate in their own ways.) Really? Because everyone else realized that years and years ago…

Foam. Lots and lots of foam.

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:08:32 -0400

Foam. Lots and lots of foam.

One thing this blog has taught me so far: I use the word “pretty” waaay to much.

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:55:07 -0400

One thing this blog has taught me so far: I use the word “pretty” waaay to much.