Robert Scoble does everyone a favor by boiling down the outrage over Google’s Autolink feature to an easily understandable idea, Anything that changes my content is evil. Wow. I happen to take the opposite view — as long as changes aren’t forced on users by spyware or tools that are shipped with the browser and…
February, 2005
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Man, a couple summers ago I was a bit incredulous as I snapped these pictures below, These are from anti-war protests sponsored by a local group called Kalamazoo Non-Violent Opponents of War. I was making fun of them here and here. But it turned out these folks were absolutely right about the insidious neocon conspiracy.…
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There was a time when I was pretty obssessed with the traffic stats for my site. I’ve reached the point, however, where I don’t even think about it anymore and it’s largely the fault of Mark Morgan and Seth Dillingham and their respective companies. Back in 1999, for example, I was very impressed that my…
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Wizards of the Coast is preparing a Codename: Kids Next Door CCG. Oh man, what we need is Codename: Kids Next Door D20! C.O.O.L.
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A couple weeks ago, my wife and I are having lunch at a restaurant that has real silverware. I’m purusing the menu and notice they have some sort of steak sandwich that has a notation that it can be prepared “Diablo style”. Ignoring the small print explanation, I point this out to my wife and…
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Developer One has finally managed to release the initial version of Agenda Fusion 7 for the PocketPC. The PocketPC aftermarket organizer field is pretty much between Agenda Fusion and Pocket Informant. Many longtime Agenda Fusion users, including myself, believed that AF had fallen behind Pocket Informant both in features and speed. I was close to…
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I really couldn’t care less about the Jeff Gannon affair one way or the other, except to point out that this Fox News story underlies what idiots our elected officials are (and this idiot Conyers is, unfortunately, from Michigan — emphasis added), [John] Conyers and [Louise] Slaughter note in their letter that in an October…
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I can’t believe I’m doing this because back in 1994 I swore I would never step foot in another grad classroom, but today I received a letter informing me that I’d been accepted in a master’s program. This should be interesting.
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You just have to appreciate the sort of bombast that Dave Winer can generate. Google creates a beta version of its toolbar that automatically detects addresses and turns them into links to Google Maps automatically — if the user explicitly chooses this behavior — and it turns out to be the end of the Web…
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Hey, Slashdot has a review of Halo 2 posted this week. I think I heard something about that game a few months ago, but its good to see someone finally publish a review! In that spirit, I’m working on my review of Robotron: 2084.