March 10, 2004
Winer continues to flail
Apparently Dave's off his meds again. He's once again embarked on a shit-stirring campaign disguised as an outreach effort. Do...March 09, 2004
Your friend is a putz
orkut needs a new feature. It needs a way for me to send a message to someone that says "your...February 20, 2004
Delta Airlines SUCKS
I'm sure someone out there has had a trouble-free interaction with Delta but it sure as hell wasn't me. These...Friends of friends mail
Ugh, I hate orkut's handling of mail from 'friends of friends'. It's not that I'm oppposed to being able to...January 27, 2004
Free as in 'until you get a mortgage'
Slashdot digs up this gem, IBM Patents Method For Paying Open Source Workers. Now that's funny. We'll pay you to...January 25, 2004
Gaming the system
JungleScan.com more proof that as soon as you have a system the idiots will spend vast energies gaming it....January 19, 2004
Google sucks lately
Searching for product info on Google has become an absolutely pointless endeavor. Once upon a time the search results for a product name or model number would bring up either the vendor's own pages or a few user comment pages.November 19, 2003
SETI space-borne virus?
What a load of bunk. Keeping Watch for Interstellar Computer Viruses So the little green men are going to, what,...November 07, 2003
How convenient
N.H. high court says gay sex not adultery So if you've got a 'civil union' what would then consitute adultery?...October 31, 2003
Memes catch on
rageboy picks up on a point I've made all along....October 27, 2003
Search engine gaming
Ugh, it appears Google's getting less and less useful. Now it would appear the link spammers have overwhelmed it's ability...October 16, 2003
What, no pictures?
kynn, among many others, is parroting the Independent's line here. If they used bulldozers there would be no stumps sticking...August 14, 2003
That which they so richly deserve
I'm unsurprised with the latest situation surrounding virus attacks on Windows. When you've got the number one operating system it's...August 13, 2003
Those that rail against the idea...
All I can say to some of the folks so mightily railing against the idea of RDF is a soundbite...August 08, 2003
Enlightenment is soooo elusive
Jon Udell: An RSS/RDF epiphany I've met Jon, read his book and have followed his comments over the years. He's...Harvard being used as a Spamhaus?
What a hoot! Dave sends me a spam message inviting me to spend $500 to attend a conferernce he's coordinating....August 04, 2003
More FUD
sigh... Winer just lies and lies and lies. Here's the latest bits of his misleading comments from a news.com article....Sales prevention
There's undoubtedly been a lot of research and a number of books written on the concept of retaining customers. I...July 30, 2003
Grammar police
I suppose nobody else cares but it really irritates me when I see someone grafting on a 'ian' suffix onto...July 28, 2003
Decent behavior in technical communities
From a mailing list via Jarno Virtanem comes a quote Decent behavior in technical communitiesMy experience in the Perl community...July 22, 2003
Sound on web pages
<rant> People that put embedded midi files on their web pages should be beaten with sticks. Heavy, nail-studded ones if...July 18, 2003
Besy Buy? Maybe. Best Service? Not on your life!
Ugh, what a lame repair job the Best Buy folks did on my laptop. Yeah, they replaced the overheating and...Wisdom, the hard way
Well, well. It appear's Don Park is starting to learn some lessons. The comments are interesting. The short story here...July 11, 2003
Censorship in the blogosphere
John Robb (long time underpaid, if ever) so-called President and CEO of Userland resigns, announcing it in his weblog. Dave...July 10, 2003
Winer should apologize
This post from Amir, RANTISSIMO site makes a good point.Dave Winer should aplogize for publicly censoring John Robb's blog. And...July 08, 2003
Ad hominems continue
Dave's really got his 'be an asshole attitude' set on high lately. As opposed to his usual state of being...Dissenter disappeared?
Well, well, it seems yet another voice has been deleted from cyberspace. What a shame, John's site had some worthwhile...June 04, 2003
This is not progress
I drink coffee. I happen to like it, as New Yorkers would say, light and sweet. That's half-and-half and a...May 29, 2003
Rattling the cage
Weeee, that was elightening. Once confronted Dave flails and continues to try bullshitting the audience. But hey, it's cool for...May 07, 2003
Nothing better to do with his time
Gosh, it's sad to watch dear old Dave implode. But as I commented last week, he's much too addicted to...May 04, 2003
Suprises from Verizon
What a mess. Apparently a pole transformer 'caught fire' last Friday. This necessitated a repair of the cable serving my...May 02, 2003
NO! I co-invented RSS!
Embarking on yet another campaign to warp history, Winer's trying to lay claim to having been some sort of co-inventor...Auto-destruct must have tripped
Yeesh, Winer's gone and blown all his circuits. Now, instead of his usual distortions he's outright lying. It's like he's...May 01, 2003
Fight, fight, fight!
Weeeee, RSS's favorite crazy man seems to be off his rocker again. I swear, Hollywood can't come up with scripts...April 19, 2003
Keeping digging
Winer, once again, proves what a real jerk he is. Sam Ruby and others keep hoping Dave will somehow wise...April 17, 2003
weblogger navel gazing gone bad
Oh for pity's sake, not content with gazing fiercely at their own navels, some webloggers have taken to photographing their...April 09, 2003
Baghdad Broadcasting Service
I'm pretty well fed up with the BBC. I will certainly withhold contributing to local public radio if they continue...April 08, 2003
Protesters are traitors?
Go to a protest, get your picture taken, have it show up on a web site calling you a traitor.April 07, 2003
Local man challenges spammer
Marketer Challenges Anti-Spam Crusader. A local man in Ellicott City has taken steps to challenge a spammer located in Linthicum....April 06, 2003
get yer tinfoil hats out!
The weblog community's got itself all a-quiver lately over whether the FBI is watching them. Puh-eeeze people! Gimme a frickin' breakApril 05, 2003
Attacking spammers
I say it's high time we all started actively working to expose spammers and people bent on abusing our computing resources.April 04, 2003
exploit reporter?
I'm not one to pay much attention to referral or web access logs. But recently I've had to delve into some and was unpleasantly surprised to find a fair amount of requests for various security exploits. Why not deploy some sort of service that collects the IP addresses and uses them during future page deliveries? Just a thought, oh lazy web...April 02, 2003
Word usage
Kevin Drum makes an interesting observation on people's misuse of words. Which leads to nice piece from Kieran as well....March 31, 2003
Forged spam virus
Apparently some jackasses are spamming the net with messsages containing a virus masquerading as a screensaver. To make matters worse they're now forging other people's mailing addresses.March 21, 2003
patented discussions?
Did this hit memespace? What, no furor over it? Or did I just miss the conversation? From digiboy....March 17, 2003
Evolve or die
I find it quite amazing to talk to people that have never even seen, let alone used, advanced features of...March 16, 2003
Comment spam for zipcodes
Do not taunt Happy Fun Blog, Happy Fun Blog gets evenMarch 15, 2003
A little group pressure please?
Open letter to Puma @ Gawker So let's this straight, a company is pretending to make a weblog. And other...March 13, 2003
And we love you too
From: harley@argote.chAnd if Bin Laden were to fly a 747 into the White House and kill Bush and his entourage right now, I would go out and dance in the streets, along with billions.
March 11, 2003
Hypocrisy reigns
It seems the Guardian, that bastion of all this good and true (ha!), has gotten it's hands on a translation...March 10, 2003
Raise foot, take aim...
It never ceases to amaze me the way some sysadmins will shoot at their own feet. The latest gem has...March 07, 2003
Vendor myopia
Ever work with a vendor that's too stupid to understand the value of NFR copies of their software? I've got...March 05, 2003
Switch? How about the truth instead?
Heeheee, think it's so much fun switching? Watch and see what it's really all about. I stopped putting up with...March 04, 2003
Blocking unwelcome material
For a while now I've successfully managed blocking many pop-ups and interstitial advertisements by putting their domain names into a blank DNS zone.Darn that real world, how dare it invade blogspace!
Weeeee, I predicted this would happen. At the O'Reilly Emerging Tech conference a year and a half ago I raised just this question to a blogging panel.February 27, 2003
Dead outnumber the living?
Heh, it appears some toolkits the produce RSS are really starting to lose users. One even has more feeds dead,...February 12, 2003
xml-dev perma-threads
....sigh... the xml-dev mailing list seems to be stuck in broken record mode. They're once again back beating the dead...February 04, 2003
Watch who dismisses what
Take a look at who's saying what is or isn't possible or practical. Then take a hard look at their...February 02, 2003
Cutting off the meta nose to spite the meta face?
It seems the people afraid of what abuses could be done with metadata are continuing to think it's pointless to...January 29, 2003
As seen in FoRK: "Chomsky is a Nobel moron, the world's #1 anti-Semitic Jew, probably suffering advanced Alzheimer's."...
