Scripting News Annex (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nice to get support from the Guardian We’re all on our own when a BigCo decides to throw its weight at us, but being a well-read blogger has its advantages, esp when a columnist at a big newspaper believes you. Thanks to Charles Arthur for the air cover. Contrast this to the NY Times piece that [...]
Scripting News Annex (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Losing followers on Twitter? I stopped keeping track of the number of people following me on Twitter, I know it was pretty high, but I also know it wasn’t a true measure of how many people were paying attention to what I said there. Some of them, I assume, are people who tried Twitter and for [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dave Winer is not a man given to understatement. As the progenitor of one of the first blogs, Scripting News , and (at least) the co-creator of web feeds (aka RSS), Winer has made lots of money from being, as he puts it, "an outlier on the leading edge". The other day, his internet service provider Comcast cut him off unexpectedly . An outage? No. When he got on the phone to someone in customer support,...
Rob Fahrni (Free subscription) | yesterday
Scripting News : "Their issue isn't with the security on my net, it has to do with how much bandwidth I use. Can't work with them when their method of getting me on the phone is to shut off my service, without any warning. I told them to close the account. I'm no longer a Comcast customer. I'm sure they'll send me another bill, adding insult to injury. " - I have some friends at work that have had...
Scripting News Annex (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
TechJunk picking up steam Tech.NewsJunk.Com was born on the 4th of July, just like the United States of America. I chose a holiday so the expectations wouldn’t be too high, cause I knew at first it would be hard to find the kinds of stories I was looking for, news about products. Not interested in mergers [...]
Scripting News Annex (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
We won in Iraq, a long time ago I know this goes without saying, but it keeps coming up. Remember when our troops marched into Baghdad, took the place over, drove Saddam into a hole and arrested or killed the government. Then we disbanded their army. When you go to war that’s what victory looks like. Then [...]
Scripting News Annex (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
April Fool in July? I don’t know about those guys over at TechCrunch, they always get me with their April Fools jokes. Now here comes this piece that announces they’re getting into the hardware business! Could it be for real? I don’t know!! I’m reminded of this post by Mike this weekend where he reviewed a service [...]
Scripting News Annex (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Amazon S3 down all day As you can see, we host most of our images on Amazon S3. As do many other sites. It’s been a marvel of uptime, until it goes down. And today’s outage is the worst so far (there have only been two others). I’m sure they’re working their butts off to get it [...]
Scripting News Annex (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Mini-blog posts I never agreed that Twitter is what some people call a micro-blogging service. Just didn’t feel much like blogging to me. But FriendFeed is another story. I am using it more like a blogging tool than Twitter. For example… 1. Yesterday I snuck out to see the new Batman movie on its opening day. I [...]
Scripting News Annex (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Identi.ca implements the Twitter API Recall that identi.ca is an open source Twitter-like “micro blogging” service. When it appeared, earlier this month, I wrote: “First thing –> looking for an API.” I wanted to see an implementation of the Twitter API, so that all the code that I had written for Twitter would automatically work with [...]
Love the Mac (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
[ Scripting News ] My iPhone's camera is broken. The iPod never worked (I hate earbuds and none of my headphones fit their non-standard jack and buying an adapter would be ridiculous for me, I'd have to buy 5 cause I lose little chotchkas like those adapters.) It played videos for the first few weeks, then no matter what I did iTunes refused to copy videos on to the phone.
Scripting News Annex (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Checking out the Asus Here are the photos from the unboxing of my new Asus. I like it — it’s fun getting a new tech toy. Most irritating thing about it is the way the trackpad works. Hesitating while positioning the cursor is interpreted as a click. This has already resulted in wrong information being transmitted to Netflix, [...]
Scripting News Annex (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Apple’s walled garden Nik over at TechCrunch wrote a post yesterday where he wondered why people who love open systems and open source are willing to wait in line for an iPhone 3G which is one of the most closed systems ever. And why they’re willing to use software from the Apple store, a store you [...]
Scripting News Annex (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
A new JibJab! Send a JibJab Sendables® eCard Today! Yeah of course it’s about the oil and that’s all it’s about Watching Obama give his big Iraq speech today, I told myself a joke that got me laughing so hard, I couldn’t stop. Maybe you’ll enjoy it too. Imagine Obama looking into the camera saying “Fuck it, we all [...]
Scripting News Annex (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Foreclosures in your neighborhood? Next week the financial crisis in the US reaches a new level with a major bank failure and two others being bailed out. There’s lots of macro news, but what about your neighborhood? Are people losing their homes? Many For Sale signs? If so, are they selling? How do you feel about [...]
