I’ve always had mixed feelings about Yahoo!. I liked them in the earliest of days, when it was just a little directory of stuff on the www (as I remember calling it). I got fairly turned off when it became hugely successful, because of its “vibrant” esthetic and extremely commercial focus (ads everywhere!). I was [...]
Archive for November, 2006
Yahoo's UI library and the like
I’ve always had mixed feelings about Yahoo!. I liked them in the earliest of days, when it was just a little directory of stuff on the www (as I remember calling it). I got fairly turned off when it became hugely successful, because of its “vibrant” esthetic and extremely commercial focus (ads everywhere!). I was [...]
The ran in van. falls manly on the plan
Note to people far from here: Please send sunny thoughts. We’ve had one of the wettest Novembers on record so far, there are landslides everywhere, including some into our reservoirs, causing a boil-water advisory. Upside: we had a nice time sledding & making snow forts last weekend.
Yahoo! and Google’s approaches to good deeds
Google has Google.org, which has a billion dollars of seed money and little goals like literacy, clean water, eradicating poverty and other small projects. Yahoo! has (as far as I can tell) “Yahoo! for good“, which is a web site where they can elicit UGC (user-generated content) showing how their users are doing good. Most [...]
Yahoo! and Google's approaches to good deeds
Google has Google.org, which has a billion dollars of seed money and little goals like literacy, clean water, eradicating poverty and other small projects. Yahoo! has (as far as I can tell) “Yahoo! for good“, which is a web site where they can elicit UGC (user-generated content) showing how their users are doing good. Most [...]
A good quote from my friend Mark Y…
all worthy aspects of human life are, directly or indirectly, conjugations of the verb, “to eat”.
Keyboard replacement policies
Noticed this week: getting a new keyboard for a powerbook is a time-consuming affair. Dell sends keyboards overnight for installation by the user (nice & easy). For the powerbook, it took close to a week in the shop. That was rough, but I survived.
Don’t believe everything you hear…
In an email this morning: So there’s this rumour I heard on irc last night that you are moving to the UK. Is that true? I love the fact that there are rumors about me (makes me feel so glamorous!), but I wonder where this one’s coming from. I thought about moving to the UK [...]
Don't believe everything you hear…
In an email this morning: So there’s this rumour I heard on irc last night that you are moving to the UK. Is that true? I love the fact that there are rumors about me (makes me feel so glamorous!), but I wonder where this one’s coming from. I thought about moving to the UK [...]
