Archive for March, 2005

I've been watching Ruby on Rails for a while now. It seems to be gaining some momentum. Ruby seems like a nice language, and the Rails framework appears to add some WebObjects-like functionality. It looks like it's got some stuff that approaches Direct-to-web. It still doesn't look quite as elegant as WebObjects, but it is... »

If it was my ear, it might not be so bad. But Evan's been inflicted by a nasty pair of ear infections. Poor little guy didn't sleep more than an hour last night (therefore, mom and dad didn't sleep at all - no sir, no way in hell are we having another one -... »

As we're creating more content on and for the internet (and computers in general), we're placing more of our culture into what is really an ephemeral medium. There is no 1000-year archive plan for the internet. The closest thing we have to that is The Internet Archive - but even that is subject to... »

Thanks to Stephen, I got hooked up with a Yahoo 360 invite. I wanted to kick the tires to see what they've come up with in their big fancy social networking system. The coolest thing I see so far is the concept of friend-of-a-friend. I imagine it's completely compatible with FOAF, but they expose preferences... »

I'm taking this week to spend with the family. Janice is out of town for much of the week, so it's just Evan and myself baching it. It's been absolutely great being able to hang out with the boy - we spent the morning at the zoo, and it was fun watching him get... »

OK. A rant taken from Robert Scoble's playlist. John Carmack - the guy that wrote Doom, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3 Arena, Doom 3, and is trying to get into orbit with his own personal venture - has a blog. But no RSS. WTF? Is he hand-rolling the pages in EMACS? Using some POS app that... »

I'd been using the Kubrick theme since well before WordPress 1.5, when it became the default theme. At first, it was a nice, clean theme that stood out from the rest of the other blogs out there. Now, it's a nice, clean theme that everyone else is using. There's nothing inherently wrong with that,... »

I've been a hard core BBEdit user since BBEdit 6 (way back before MacOSX). It's a great text editor, and has many awesome features. I've actually stuck at BBEdit 7, since the Big New Features in BBEdit 8 weren't that big to me, and I couldn't justify allocating budget for the upgrade license. I've also... »

If you're trying to access any services on campus at the University of Calgary - it looks like our network connection took the Easter weekend off... All servers are up and running fine, but the pipe is plugged, so it's slow going if you are trying to connect to anything on campus. Which means I'll... »

I might be missing something obvious, but it seems to be more difficult than necessary to organize subscriptions in NetNewsWire. I've got 377 feeds, and sometimes I need to go into my subscriptions list to find stuff, rather than just living in the "New Items" folder (where I do spend about 98% of... »