I spent a few minutes Google’ing for the download location of Google Notifier for Mac. There are a gazillion sites talking about it, but all point to various URLs that do not work anymore. Redirections FTW!
Sagrada Família
I suppose it’s an indication of Gaudí’s genius that mankind has still not managed to complete the cathedral even though work on it started > 120 years ago.
Thursday, September 27, 2007, 22:01
“Average number of frozen pizzas consumed in Germany per person, per year: 90”
— I don’t eat frozen pizzas at all, so there must be someone else in Germany who compensates for my absence by insane frozen pizza consumption. (via Mareen)
Thursday, September 27, 2007, 21:57
“good code is not exacted by language. Good code is exacted by mental discipline.”
Sunday, September 23, 2007, 20:13
“[T]alking to women involves a Diffie-Hellman key exchange where God forgot to clue me in on the shared secret.”
Monday, September 17, 2007, 15:47
Had a mountain bike crash today. I dunked into a scarp abundantly covered with blackberry bushes. Unfortunately they tend to have pretty nasty spines and the backflip I made before landing didn’t improve things, too. Oh well, luckily the bike is fine.
Friday, September 14, 2007, 23:12
“Twitter’s success will be defined by it’s growth and that means they need to figure how I can spend less time following more people.”
— Rands
Wednesday, September 12, 2007, 20:33
I doubt it surprises anyone that I own plastic gloves. What’s surprising is that I opted for the yellow ones. ;-)
Wednesday, September 12, 2007, 16:24
“zone contains the domain names which the domain with the same domain name contains apart from domain names in delegated sub-domains”
— silly University slide on DNS
Wednesday, September 12, 2007, 16:05
Naming Change?
We have seen quite a few cases in the past where meanings of acronyms for technologies in our little niche of the world commonly known as the Internet have been dropped for one reason or another. Sometimes this happened explicitly and sometimes people just stopped thinking about the meaning and only use the acronym.
I hereby suggest that we do the same for JSON and drop its meaning “JavaScript Object Notation” all together. Why, you ask? Projects like CouchDB use JSON for solving problems that have nothing to do with JavaScript at all, it is supported by most (if not all) major programming languages for REST-style data exchange with other languages without touching WS-*, and our shiny new Web 2.0 thing uses JSON as the new XML. For me these are at least three good reasons to get rid of the explicit connection to JavaScript, no?
The JavaScript Object Notation is dead. Long live the JSON!
Saturday, September 8, 2007, 6:00