Flickr: Flunkr
Monday, October 27th, 2008About once a month or so, I’m tempted to dump 25 bucks on Flickr to upgrade to a ‘Pro’ account, just so I can plop more than 200 photos into that particular bucket. I admit I’ve been on the cusp a couple of times.
But I never do. The plain fact is that Flickr is a terrible photo viewing interface.
Form and Function
Friday, October 24th, 2008As a computer geek, I’m supposed to be suffused with enthusiasm and excitement over the features of the latest software. By rights, I should be the one carrying the techno-tablets down from the mountain, telling you how the latest in frobnalising effemitry is going to change everyone’s life. I’m the one supposed to show you where to sign up and what to do with it once you’ve got it.
I have a confession to make: I hate most software.
Steaming Piles
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Sometimes you have to destroy the document in order to save it….
Stop Bad Errors
Thursday, May 8th, 2008I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04, which comes with the most recent beta of Firefox 3.0. The new version of Firefox has a number of interesting features, not the least of which is a set of measures to reduce drive-by infection of PCs.
If they wander from the beaten path, people now see a big red [...]
Web Standards - A Rant
Monday, May 1st, 2006It’s very common on Slashdot and other, er, technical fora, to see people make assertions like the following:
“IE extensions [of existing standards] have proven to be a very good thing for the web overall. It has always been IE that has pushed the limits of dynamic web pages through the inclusion of similar extensions (primarily [...]