20 July 2008
I searched long and hard for a smartphone worth the expense, and although I looked at the iPhone, I said the same thing many others did: no 3G, no GPS, no deal. Well, what do you know, the newest incarnation has both. I’m not authorized for a discount, by as soon as the lines die [...]
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4 June 2008
Dreamhost, rationalizing their decoupling of e-mail and Web hosting.
Just over HALF of all the support requests we get are about email. Everything else we offer, combined, doesn’t add up to the amount of trouble, expense, use, and effort that goes into “simple” old email.
And that’s kind of funny, because [...]
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27 February 2008
Microsoft’s version targeting proposal for IE8 is all the rage on the Internets. I’ve been reading the arguments for and against, and have settled on holding two contradictory beliefs in my mind and accepting them both. Version targeting is a terrible proposal, one that threatens the advancement of Web design as we know it, and [...]
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14 February 2008
One thing I love about being a Rails hobbyist is that I can continually think about the best way to do things. With no paycheck hinging on a deliverable, I can refactor continuously until I’m convinced I have the best code I can muster. Sure, I never get anything done, but the exercise makes me [...]
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6 February 2008
As I mentioned before, I’ve be having a lot of fun with EVE Online. The attraction, however, hasn’t been just to the ability to fly around in a ship and blast pirates (as if that weren’t enough!). EVE has a pretty excellent API, an browser that provides in-game information, and even dumps of art and [...]
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