Archive for June, 2003

Oh, is *that* all?

Friday, June 27th, 2003

Golly. All this time I've been struggling with IA issues, talking to big muckety-mucks about search log analysis and things, and all I had to do was read this article on the new builder.com: Understanding information taxonomy helps build better apps. Haven't taken a close look at it yet, but ...

Inventions while you wait

Wednesday, June 25th, 2003

Sam Ruby's Wiki is currently (25 June 2003) devoted to the development of a new standard for weblog entries - one that would accomodate archives, syndication, and everything else a weblog might need. I've seen mentions of it on a couple of other blogs, and I think it's a ...

Just finished

Tuesday, June 24th, 2003

I just finished Melvin Burgess' Bloodtide, and I have to say it wasn't all that engaging - too bloody, too jerky (some chapters omniscient POV, some limited to this character, some to that character, etc.), too ... I dunno, rough. I understand the reason it was so bloody - it's based ...

Quote of the Day

Tuesday, June 24th, 2003

From Zeldman's Designing with Web Standards: Netscape 4 offered CSS for the first time in a last-minute implementation so broken and foul it set adoption of CSS back by at least two years. ouch.

sigh

Monday, June 23rd, 2003

Nothing much today - just another event that makes me wonder if Nextel still wants me as an employee. I had broadband access to VPN approved on June 6th. Today, since I've been a bit under the weather, I decided to work from home. Lo and behold, when I tried ...