Month: December 2003

KeyringLaptop. A laptop on a keyring, well in many ways this can only an exaggeration, but the idea has been intriguing me recently. The catalyst was coming across Knoppix. There's a lot of hardware around out there, and at times it seems it would be easier to just go up a computer and use it… Continue reading KeyringLaptop

Happy Holidays!. Happy Holidays! [inessential.com]

Merry Christmas to all!  Don't forget The Annual NORAD Tracks Santa Claus Website (English)  [Privacy Digest]

Signed, Sealed, Delivered.  I just had to post this one!  “If you're going to make a deal with Sauron, consult your lawyer first.” [via MetaFilter]  [The Shifted Librarian]

The Recovery Storage Group.  In this article, I'm going to have a look at another new feature of Exchange 2003. This time, it's the Recovery Storage Group. Microsoft provides a full whitepaper on this particular feature, which has been posted to this blog quite recently. Here I will cover the key elements of the Recovery… Continue reading The Recovery Storage Group

Cheesecake Factory Discoveries. When you make your pilgrimage to Silicon Valley, and want to visit the Palo Alto (admit it, if you're a geek, you gotta come and see Palo Alto at least once in your life and University Ave is the epicenter of the tech world) you're eventually going to get hungry. The new… Continue reading Cheesecake Factory Discoveries

Useit.Com: Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003. Many of this year's top design mistakes actually indicate a happy phenomenon: we are making progress in Web usability. Now that sites are doing certain things correctly, we get hit by second-order phenomena that only cause problems because users have progressed past the first-order issues. [Tomalak's Realm]

Joel on Unix: I've been sanity-checking FogBUGZ for Unix by installing various OSes under VMware. The reason I need all these setups is because there are so many different ways to distribute software on Unix: we had to produce a .rpm, a .deb, a .tar.gz, and a .dmg for OS X. (FogBUGZ for Unix system… Continue reading Joel on Unix

On shipping software. I learned at an early age the importance of shipping software. My first software award It was 1982, I was barely a teenager, and I was at a computer fair where young geeks from all over Delaware were competing in a programming contest. We were paired up at random with other geeks.… Continue reading On shipping software

Now You Can Leave the eBay Selling to Them. A handful of new businesses now take in a customer's merchandise, photograph it, post it on eBay, the Internet auction site, then ship it to the winning bidder. By Karen Alexander. [New York Times: Technology]