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Entries for week beginning April 8, 2007

April 14, 2007

HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web

Good summary of the “competing” HTML/XHTML “standards”. There’s the engineering side of my brain that loves the ‘you have to close every tag’ tidyness of XHTML, but let’s face it, the pragmatic reverse-engineered-tag-soup approach of HTML5 is going to win this one.

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April 13, 2007

Fire And Motion - Joel on Software

Classic Joel article from 2002. I had to go and reread this, because I’ve been stuck in a rut of unproductivity for the last couple of days. Good reminder that it happens to everyone.

IE WebDeveloper V2

Firebug-a-like for IE. If this works as advertised, it could be indispensable for cross-browser Javascriptery.

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Nigel's Green Skeleton Shirt - This Is Spinal Tap - founditemclothing.com

Gonna have to get myself one of these. “Exactly medically accurate”.

April 12, 2007

Correo - a new mail client for OS X

An attempt to mould Thunderbird into a more Mac-like mail client.

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Interactive Johari Window - Describe rodbegbie

Back in the third year of my CompSci degree, there was a class that was around personal development and teamwork — presumably to help tweak out the Asbergery tendencies of CompSci students — and part of it was the Johari Window (which I largely remember because its name comes from the fact that its inventors were Joe and Harry). If you know me, go pick five or six adjectives to describe me, and see how self-aware I really am.

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slight paranoia: A Deceit-Augmented Man In The Middle Attack Against Bank of America's SiteKey Service

Those anti-phishing “pick a photo and a phrase that must be displayed when you login to your bank” systems? Work-aroundable by smart-enough phishers. Wonder where the arms race goes next?

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Will Ferrell Movie Generator

I’ve seen some of these, I think.

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April 11, 2007

Mr Dice, Meet Mr K. (again)

Mr Dice, Meet Mr K. (again)

ZoneTag Photo Wednesday 8:05 pm 4/11/07 Boston, Massachusetts

ZoneTag Photo Wednesday 8:05 pm 4/11/07 Boston, Massachusetts

Yet more Japanese

Yet more Japanese

WEEI and ESPN Radio were both handing out Japanese signs for the crowd to hold up. No idea what they say, though. (Outside the park after the game, the Sully's Tees folks were selling shirts that said "YANKEES SUCK" in Japanese. Some things are universal)

Mr Dice, Meet Mr K.

Mr Dice, Meet Mr K.

These guys were a couple of rows back from us. Joy & I are totally going to rip off their idea this Hallowe'en.

ZoneTag Photo Wednesday 6:44 pm 4/11/07 Boston, Massachusetts

ZoneTag Photo Wednesday 6:44 pm 4/11/07 Boston, Massachusetts

ZoneTag: Photosphere / About. Owner only: Fix Location / Add Tags / Settings

Japanese Baseball Cheers

Japanese Baseball Cheers

Handed out outside the park.

Matsuzaka 18

Matsuzaka 18

First person I saw with a MATSUZAKA 18 shirt on. Saw a fair few people who'd recycled their "DAMON 18" shirts from before he went evil.

Popeye’s Chicken Welcomes Japanese-Speaking Red Sox Fans

Popeye’s Chicken Welcomes Japanese-Speaking Red Sox Fans

First piece of Japanese writing I saw near Fenway, outside the Popeye's Chicken.

“Official Sponsor of The Gyroball”

“Official Sponsor of The Gyroball”

I love this billboard on the Mass Pike. It's for Bank of America who are the "official" bank of the Red Sox.

It's designed to resemble the manual scoreboard on the Green Monster, and says "Official Sponsor of" before being completed by topical slogans, which change about once a week.

Today, it reads "Official Sponsor of The Gyroball". Prior to Opening Day, it was "Official Sponsor of Best Day of the Year", and before yesterday's Home Opener it read "Tuesday Homecomings".

Makes me smile every time I see it, even if Bank of America are evil incompetent buffoons who I wouldn't bank with if you paid me.

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weather.com - Red Sox games

Weather.com are now serving up weather reports for baseball fans — warning you what the weather’s gonna be like where and when your team is playing.

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April 10, 2007

YouTube - Instant laser coffee

Note to self: Convince Sodexho to install one of these in the [RhymesWithNose] cafeteria.

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Need To Know 2002-07-26

How free porn has helped the world of networking in the past — Load-testing BitTorrent back in 2002.

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The Great IPv6 Experiment

Can the carrot of free porn give us valuable feedback on the readiness of users to switch over to IPv6 networking?

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O'Reilly Radar > PHP Becoming Mainstream

“PHP and MySQL For Dummies” is currently the top-selling PHP book. Attention malicious types: There will soon be even more half-assed easily-attackable PHP sites on the internet for your delectation.

April 9, 2007

Kotaku: Xbox 360 Text Input Device

Good lord. When I saw pass by the other day in my RSS reader, I assumed it was a piss-take photoshop job. Nope, it’s real — QWERTY in your hands.

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Darkel

CD Purchase: Darkel - Darkel

DJ-Kicks: Kruder & Dorfmeister

CD Purchase: Kruder & Dorfmeister - DJ-Kicks: Kruder & Dorfmeister

Little Pop Rock

CD Purchase: Sister Vanilla - Little Pop Rock

April 8, 2007

YouTube - Cadbury Eggs...smaller?

Conclusive proof by BJ Novak of “The Office” that Creme Eggs *are* smaller this year (only in the US?)


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