Into the Twitter

Today I took the plunge, downloaded Twitterific and decided to give Twitter a go. It took me awhile because some time ago I decided to only engage in a limited number of social networking sites/experimnents. Before Facebook, something had to die (sorry Friendster). Before Twitter something else had to die (sorry LinkedIn).
It took about 10 [...]

Un-Scrabulous?

Undoubtedly Scrabulous is perhaps the best reason to stick around on Facebook (some might suggest only?) - I’ve been thoroughly enjoying it, with my 1-1 record at the moment.
However judging from the number of 1300+ and 1400+ rated players I appear to know I seem to have been unwittingly living amongst a long-lost sect [...]

“Where’s my Vorpal Sword when I need it?!”

The ultimate tribute to Gary Gygax.
I LOL’d.

Legal Browser Rendering? Wtf?

Today Microsoft announced that IE 8 will render per standards compliance, which is great, but this sentence is just weird to my brain:

While we do not believe any current legal requirements would dictate which rendering mode a browser must use, this step clearly removes this question as a potential legal and regulatory issue.

Have we honestly [...]

You’ll Just Get Dirty

Via Bad Astronomy, a scientist debates a muslim fundamentalist on whether or not the Earth is round. (”Debate” is probably the wrong word for it, given the futility). This is laugh-out-loud funny (unless perhaps if you believe in it….)

The scientist makes a game try at it, but sometimes debating people like this just proves Heinlein [...]

Why Free Software Usability Sucks

This really, really old article on Why Free Software Usability Tends to Suck (from 2002 but still valid though they start out talking about “free” and immediately confuse that as synonymous with “open source”) has hit Reddit again. And will again, and again, and again I’m sure.
Fortunately the whole “argument” about why software made freely-available [...]

iTunes: Always Allow. Always. Please?

iTunes is one of the applications I’d like to always allow incoming connections. As you can see from this screenshot I thought I’d set things up in the Security preferences properly.
As you can also see from this screenshot every time I re-launch iTunes it asks if I’d like to allow incoming connections:

Is it me? [...]

Welcome to the Tribe

Congratulations to Cory and Alice on the birth of their first daughter, Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow.
Fine news indeed.

I Knew It Seemed Familiar

Obviously the world is abuzz with Microsoft’s attempt to purchase Yahoo! for that crazy figure that does not compute. I don’t know if it’s a good idea or a bad idea, to me it seems like two companies who’s products I don’t use turning into one company who’s products I don’t use.
But I couldn’t shake [...]

Happy or Sad?

John Gruber notes that:

Windows Vista Help: Opening the Windows Vista box
“Even the packaging suffers from poor usability. Jiminy.”

because of that little help tidbit that describes how to open the Vista packaging. It’s sad if it’s “for reals” but I’m not convinved… could it be Microsoft’s attempt at help humour ala Apple’s How to pick up [...]

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