Category: computing

Another AOL Journals Demo

I was there for this one too. It was a little weirder than the one in New York, because we outnumbered the Six Apart crew three to one, which made for a little more imposing vibe in the room than I would have liked. Aside from the technical difficulties of a constantly over-heating projector (damn […]

Style My RSS, Please

I suggested this on the NetNewsWire bug report list, but it really doesn’t belong there. I was poking around the RSS 2.0 spec today and saw a weird little optional tag with <item> called <enclosure>. Enclosure takes length, type and url as arguments, and says it’s for “media” files. But, like the script tag, you […]

These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things

A few of my favorite things today: jEdit: I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. If you can’t afford BBEdit, use jEdit. It’s open source, has a ton of plug-ins, does a great job with all kinds of code (works really well with AOLserver’s ADP’s even), automatically closes HTML tags for you, can […]

Why Do It?

Why do it? Why tell the world about a new product your company is launching? It’s a perfectly reasonable question I’ve been asking myself since Thursday night. Over 450 people came by just yesterday (on top of the almost two hundred on Friday, and over a hundred on Thursday in the three hours between 9 […]

Super Secret Agent Revealed!

I went to New York City today. I’m back home now, almost twelve hours after I left. It’s been a long day. As long as it’s been, it’s been a lot of fun. The top secret meeting is now something I can talk about. I went to New York with the AOL Journals team to […]

The Big Anniversary

A couple weeks till the big three year anniversary for this site. My first post (the link to the Max pics doesn’t even work!) with Blogger was on 7/20/2000. In July of 2002, I switched to Movable Type, and never looked back.\ Why have I kept going? Blogging is fun. It’s a good clean and […]

Tcling Bodies

And Another Thing…

Notice anything different? No, really… I’m super proud of this one. No, I didn’t design it. I did build it and redid everything so I don’t need any more style hacks (server-side scripting to add different CSS depending on the browser), and things are a little more proper than they were before. Keyboard navigation is […]

I Got German Linked!!

Windows Out of Time?

How funny is this? I’m updating the computer Jen uses (our Windows XP box that we’re currently too poor to replace with a shiny new Mac) with the latest Mozilla and AOL clients and realize the time is 10 minutes fast. So, I go to Adjust Date/Time and try to sync with time.windows.com. It fails. […]