December 2002 Forty-nine posts

• 21-Dec-2002
  Counterattack = Vigilantism = Bad for Society Bruce Schneier’s Crypto-Gram newsletter this month says, among other things: Our society does not give us the right of revenge, and wouldn’t work very well if it did. Read the whole thing.

  via-blogger
• 21-Dec-2002
  Random Stuff From Thanksgiving Roanoke (Just a list) Thanksgiving Veggie quiche Far from Heaven Seared Tuna and Wasabi Mashed Potatoes Angel Food Cake Buffy Marathon on FX Phone call with Leah Dad and Photoshop Elements Dueling Cats My Sister Laptoporama Salsa-making with my Mom “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you about the world” – A.I. Solaris Racquetball with my Dad

  via-blogger
• 21-Dec-2002
  BBEdit PHP Glossary If you write PHP in BBEdit, you want the BBEdit PHP Glossary.

  via-blogger
• 21-Dec-2002
  Someday we’ll find it, the Phish/Talking Heads Connection It’s here: Live Phish volume 15: The Omni in Atlanta Georgia. What’s the connection? Phish takes the whole Talking Heads record Remain In Light and covers it live on Disc 3 of Live Phish volume 15. I’ve heard Crosseyed and Painless as they do it. Fun! I don’t know much Phish, but I know some...

  via-blogger
• 21-Dec-2002
  Usability Standards Users Begin to Demand Software Usability Tests: Boeing requiring vendors to follow new usability standard for products. This is an interesting article. I like how the MS rep says “customers don’t ask for usability” – which of course rings true. But then customers are implicitly asking for usability when they can’t find what they need...

  via-blogger
• 21-Dec-2002
  Racquetball Frequently Asked Questions This is cool — common questions about racquetball — with simply worded answers. Like How do I get more power from my backhand? and Can I let the ball hit the front wall TWICE before I hit it?.

  via-blogger
• 21-Dec-2002
  Creative Commons The Creative Commons project launched this month, and you should be aware of their activities to empower people to license their works in creative ways. I’ve not decided how I will license my own web works, but the items in the Lab have always been more or less public. I intend to license them more...

  via-blogger
• 20-Dec-2002
  Great Signature Line I Stumbled On Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.

  via-blogger
• 19-Dec-2002
  David Brin is Cranky About Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien — enemy of progress — an excerpt: Obsession with either past or future can almost define a civilization. Worldwide, most cultures believed in some lost golden age when people knew more, mused loftier thoughts and were closer to the gods — but then fell from grace. Under this dour but recurrent worldview, men...

  via-blogger
• 19-Dec-2002
  QUALCOMM’s BREW Considered Harmful? Colin Fahey’s J2ME Cell Phone Experience is one developers’ one-time experience with BREW, a mobile computing platform, which he contrasts with his experience developing with Java for mobile phones. He makes good points, though I wonder if he let his bias for open platforms affect him unduly.

  via-blogger