How Not to Satisfy Your Customers

So seeing as how my summer is just about over, I had a bunch of things to wrap up.  One of them was canceling my Comcast subscription.  I called them and setup the cancellation.  A few days later I got a call from a representative “confirming” that I really wanted to cancel.  I said yes, [...]

Live From f8

I’m sitting here in a front-row seat for the f8 keynote.  I’ll be keeping this post updated as interesting things happen…so stay tuned!
1:29 pm: Waiting for the talk to start…great seat!  Music is good but a little loud
1:35 pm: Music out, Zuck in.  That is an amazingly hi-res projector!
1:36 pm: FB has been [...]

Facebook: Sea Cow of the Internet

Update: Schrep (I’m far back right, he’s in the middle…note the ripped shirt, sorry Schrep!) was kind enough to point out that, as of bug 423377 being resolved, Firefox 3 defaults to 6 simultaneous connections.  Modern browsers all use different numbers, the lowest being IE 7 with 2 (all older browsers also use 2).
One of [...]

The Internet and Thought

When I find myself thinking about something often, something that bothers me, I have the strange habit of Googling it.
I just realized that I do it, because normally when I’m deep in thought I just happen to be sitting at a computer, and I just happen to type something into that oh-so-useful quicksearch bar (apparently [...]

The Cost of Web Development

Douglas Crockford has a very interesting article on fixing HTML. He points out many of the most annoying things about HTML that make web development difficult. The currently proposed HTML spec only fixes one thing as far as I can see (being a developer), the addition of more specific types of inputs: time, [...]