Jan 3, 2003
The Globe & Mail: What this war is not about. Rick Salutin tells it like it is and echoes what I have been saying and what I have been reading in the “alternative press”. It’s nice to see thoughts like these in a mainstream paper.
It is not … Read more
Jan 3, 2003
Recently, I’ve been finding a few requests using an agent named “Hatena Antenna” in my web access logs. Performing a search on Google pulled up a number of Japanese pages but no English explanations. As I was not happy with this result, I asked my friend Aya to give me the … Read more
Jan 2, 2003
Lately I have noticed that a lot of web designers who use CSS are duplicating their efforts in their HTML sources, most notably through the use of the tag as well as bgcolor, fgcolor and background attributes. These people should stop doing so, not only because it generates more work for both them and the … Read more
Dec 31, 2002
Please don’t feel sorry for us. Given the post-9/11 climate, a Muslim woman who chooses to wear her hijab and participate fully in society has courage. Despite prevalent negative attitudes, she is secure in the knowledge that God strengthens those who seek divine help. And isn’t a confident woman an excellent asset for our society?
Dec 31, 2002
Mark Pilgrim: The tag soup of a new generation. Mark spouts off on something which I have been thinking about for a while now. How will people who can barely handle HTML make proper use of XML, and all the restrictions which accompany it? Many HTML document authors barely adhere to a proper element … Read more
Michael Stonebraker weighs in on NoSQL’s choice to abandon Consistency (or to accept eventual consistency) in favour of Availability and Partition-Tolerance. Discarding a few improbable causes of database errors where CAP does not apply, Stonebraker argues that it is more likely that a single node will fail. Given that such a “partitioned” network can be … Read more
When it was announced that items on iBooks would be in ePub format, my first thought was to the Project Gutenberg library. For those who don’t know, Project Gutenberg has, for the past 40 years, been slowly digitizing literary works which have entered the public domain. As of last December, there were over 30,000 items … Read more
“WebTest helps you test your WSGI-based web applications. […] With this you can test your web applications without starting an HTTP server, and without poking into the web framework shortcutting pieces of your application that need to be tested.”
In this article, Ian Bicking describes some basic tests for a WSGI application. There’s also a … Read more
Zuriick Collection carries some nice men’s shoes in a wide price range, from inexpensive to reasonable. Some nice-looking footwear here.
I saw these reviews years ago, but a recent conversation has reminded me of them. There are hundreds of hilarious, deadpan reviews of Amazon products. Sadly, the last one was written in 2003.