Do you have 8 minutes?

It’s been a loong time since I posted here, but I came across something today that moved me so deeply I just had to say something about it. Yesterday was the 4th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. At that time I am sure everyone of us wondered briefly …

links for 2006-11-05

Mac Mojo : It’s all in the numbers … The amount of code that goes into an productivity suite is staggering.. (tags: programming software mac microsoft) TechEBlog

How to handle repurposing?

I currently use Feedburner to handle my main site feed, in part because it takes care of the hassle of ensuring feed validity, providing Atom or RSS feeds and also the feed stats. One feature on Feedburner is identifying “Uncommon Uses” or sites where the feed content appears where it …

Must community websites be badly designed?

Everyone’s heard of it and I’m sure you’ve mistakenly fallen into that trap a few times as well – clicked on a link and found yourself at some blindess-inducing Myspace page – filled with flashing colours and annoying looped background music that leaves you scrambling for both the volume control …

links for 2006-10-25

Shuttle Launch photos Some extremely cool photos of the Shuttle launching – the article says this was taken from the ISS, but as is noted in this forum thread , it's actually from a chase plane (albeit one flying really really high) (tags: photography space-shuttle launch) Coding Horror: A Tribute …

links for 2006-10-18

Apple – Support – Small Number of Fifth Generation iPods May Be Carrying Windows Virus “As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses”.. so who else this is a bit much from Apple given that they got the iPods infected in …

links for 2006-10-09

Problematic extensions – MozillaZine Knowledge Base Tips on how to deal with problematic extensions (tags: firefox extensions problem lists) Inside of Hard Drive: Looks Like Hyper, Robotic DJ – Gizmodo Seriously cool. (tags: hardware, geek-porn)