Desktop Linux: choices for simplicity and useability. In putting together a Linux system for Small Office / Home Office users, a number of thing need to be covered slightly differently from the way that Linux has evolved. The choices aren't always made for technical reasons… [Advogato]
Author: Vince Kimball
Dave's
Dave's entirely right about how RSS should be utilized at MSDN. When you aggregate feeds from hundreds of weblogs into a single monster feed, the chance that your subscribers are downloading something they don't care about is nearly 100%. RSS is all about decentralization. It's about individual choice at a granular level. Anything else and… Continue reading Dave's
WP
WP. An examination of state polls and interviews with strategists in the two campaigns and the parties suggests that, with less than two months before the election, the 10 most competitive states are, in order of electoral vote strength, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nevada, New Mexico, West Virginia and New Hampshire. [John Robb's… Continue reading WP
British Library Publishes Digitized Copies of Shakespeare Plays
British Library Publishes Digitized Copies of Shakespeare Plays. “The British Library is putting online 93 high-resolution digitised copies of 21 of Shakespeare's plays.” [Link] [beSpacific]
InDesign and XML
InDesign and XML. In past years I have had a website up were I would post classroom assignments and notes. The last three weeks has been less than stellar for me (health wise) so I have not yet found the time to get one up. (For some reason, back in June my Moveable Type installation… Continue reading InDesign and XML
Lucky Me
Lucky Me. I've had the True Privilege of reviewing galleys of two remarkable books in the last week. (I gave them both deserved over-the-top blurbs.) First up Dan Pink's A Whole New Mind. Fundamental premise: “The past few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind—computer programmers who… Continue reading Lucky Me
Tara's book hits shelves
Tara's book hits shelves. Tara Calishain has always been our resource for finding something on the Web that no one else can find. She's been sharing her tricks with the world in a series of recent books: Spidering Hacks, with Kevin Hemenway, and Google Hacks, with Rael Dornfest. Now she has one of her own: … Continue reading Tara's book hits shelves
Backing Up the Brand
Backing Up the Brand. According to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), Apple customers are more satisfied than users of any other personal computer brand. Apple's score of 81 (out of 100) put them in the lead, with Dell taking a close 2nd after being at the top of the list for the past five… Continue reading Backing Up the Brand
Responsive Interfaces and Effective People
Responsive Interfaces and Effective People. Patrick Roberts has written a fascinating post on Responsive User Interfaces. It’s easy to make a specific application responsive, through careful coding and by limiting what the user can do. An architecture for doing this, with arbitrary functionality, is one of the holy grails of GUI frameworks. Patrick’s post is… Continue reading Responsive Interfaces and Effective People
DRM Debacle
DRM Debacle. Tim Bray delivers an important and insightful lecture on digital rights management and the coming debacle. A must-read. “My younger readers may find this incredibly weird but it's true: Not so long ago, it was illegal to buy a telephone. You could only rent them from the phone company, which had all sorts… Continue reading DRM Debacle