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 it seems a little … short, doesn’t it? Plus, it starts off by citing someone else’s definition - never a good sign.
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 remarkable thing - to be able to look in on the development process of a new technology. There’re tons of smart people in on this, so it should be fun to watch.
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 on an Icelandic saga, which tend to be pretty graphic. I just didn’t get that the book was making proper use of the violence, in much the same way that I’ve heard Pulp Fiction criticized for including violence for its own sake.
Add to that very unsympathetic characters who don’t seem rationally motivated, and you’ve got a book I’ll not be rereading soon, if ever.
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.
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 to log in via the new VPN system I was blocked. I tried a few different things, but to no avail. After a little while, I gave up and drove into the office.
Fast forward to the end of the workday - turns out that on the 13th (one week after my access was granted!) IT *killed* my VPN account! They said I hadn’t been using it - which was true until the 6th. Sigh.
