Month: June 2005

Billions Wasted on Anti-Terrorism Security. Recently there have been a bunch of news articles about how lousy counterterrorism security is in the United States, how billions of dollars have been wasted on security since 9/11, and how much of what was purchased doesn't work as advertised. . . . There are a lot of morals… Continue reading Billions Wasted on Anti-Terrorism Security

Dashboard Widget for Unix 'Remind'. A few months back Mike Harris wrote us up a great article on Remind, a very cool and flexible little UNIX app for tracking date-based events. If you enjoy Remind and are using Tiger (OS X 10.4), checkout Nick Vargish’s Remind Widget. Gives you all the power of Remind in… Continue reading Dashboard Widget for Unix 'Remind'

Sajax Simple AJAX Toolkit And ColdFusion. Sajax is an open source tool to make programming websites using the Ajax framework, and it supports ASP, ColdFusion, Io, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby backends. Steve Smith of Ordered List has posted an update to the ColdFusion code to support POST variables (in addition to the already support… Continue reading Sajax Simple AJAX Toolkit And ColdFusion

Adam Bosworth Reconsiders Ajax. Adam Bosworth responds to his son's post on Ajax Mistakes. Adam was one of the key people behind Internet Explorer. My son (Alex Bosworth) posted a popular post a week ago on the pitfalls of Ajax applications but he left out some of the features still missing from Ajax applications: First,… Continue reading Adam Bosworth Reconsiders Ajax

Confessions of a Pixel Perfectionist. Icon master Josh Williams reveals the software tools used at Firewheel Design. Welcome back, Yellowlane. Visit site [SimpleBits]

Adviser says governor faked stance on abortion. Governor Mitt Romney's top political strategist has told a prominent conservative magazine that his client has been ''faking” his support of abortion rights in Massachusetts. [Boston Globe — Front Page]

Euro facing meltdown as Italy considers backing out. EUROPE'S political crisis spread to the euro yesterday after Italy publicly discussed abandoning the single currency and reverting to the lira. [The Scotsman]

NY Times: TV's Future Is Here, but It Needs Work. Unfortunately, Akimbo can offer only what the networks and cable channels are willing to contribute. And these days, just hearing the phrase “Internet downloads” generally sends television executives into paranoid fits. As a result, the Akimbo library is so puny and overpriced that the enterprise… Continue reading TV's Future Is Here, but It Needs Work

Dutch voters strongly reject EU constitution. AMSTERDAM — Following their neighbors in France, Dutch voters delivered a stinging rebuke yesterday to the architects of a unified Europe by voting overwhelmingly against the new European Union constitution. [Boston Globe — Front Page]

Just one slider, but not so simple. Yahoo! Mindset is standard Yahoo search with one new feature, a slider with “Shopping” on one end and “Researching” on the other. The default position is dead center, and if you slide to the left or right your results are updated accordingly. The tech works. Sliding toward “Researching”… Continue reading Just one slider, but not so simple