Month: November 2002

Spanking Jakob. John S. Rhodes reviews Jakob's latest Alertbox, Intranet Usability: The Trillion-Dollar Question”. [ia/ – news for information architects]

Patterns For Personal Websites and Design of Sites book. A few design pattern resources gleaned from WebWord. The first is a site by Mark L. Irons that collects patterns for creating personal Web sites. The second is the book, “The Design of Sites: Patterns, principles and processes for crafting a customer-centered web experience”, by D.… Continue reading Patterns For Personal Websites and Design of Sites book

Macromedia announces Contribute.  Desktop software for editing static HTML sites. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Get libraries up to date. – “Students are shortchanged when school libraries don't get the support they need.” “A school library should be more than a room with books in it.” “Unless every school has a library — commonly called a media center — filled with interesting, up-to-date, useful material, the students aren't getting the… Continue reading Get libraries up to date

Moveable Type is easy to install, however getting perl DBI to talk to MySQL is impossible. Perhaps I'll just abandon the idea of using MySQL with MT. [DesignWeenie]

Laptops Not Yet Maine-Stream. In rural Maine, seventh-graders have the same shiny new laptops as their coastal cousins. But with fewer resources and training, many teachers are learning to use the machines along with their students. In part two of a series, Katie Dean reports from Thorndike, Maine. [Wired News]

Clean Underpants with that Book?. Amazon.com's CRM system just mailed me an invitation to try out their new apparel store.  In fact, while shopping for “Essential .NET” yesterday, Amazon also suggested that I buy clean underwear to go with the book.  One wonders who is in charge of coming up with this recommendation, but fortunately… Continue reading Clean Underpants with that Book?

Finishing up support for skipHours in Radio this morning, on both the aggregator side and the content side. It's in Scripting News, and now also in my Radio weblog. The update has gone out for skipHours-awareness in the aggregator. So far only my weblog generates the element. By default it's on, but there will be… Continue reading Untitled

NYT.  Frank Rich.  Democrats mired in the past. The Bush administration has big ideas. It believes that toppling Saddam Hussein is the slam-dunk gambit that will remake the Arab world to our liking (and Israel's). It has codified a security strategy built on the notion of pre-emptive war. It believes in the partial privatization of… Continue reading NYT

Deconstructing “Buffy”. Scholarly Buffy-philes gather at an English university to discuss the “morphic resonance” and “perlocutionary acts” of TV's favorite ghoul-killin' gal. [Salon.com]