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I’m a big suporter of websites doing proper validation. I even released a perl module to help people do it more easily (on the, perhaps naive, assumption that the easier it is the more likely it is people will do it).
But I’m an even bigger detractor of websites doing stupid validation. Yesterday I finally caved [...]

Back in the early 90s I got a bundled copy of Microsoft Money with a PC. At the time I had next to no money, and was pretty much living off credit cards. Keeping track of who I had to pay when was critically important, and so I tried Money, found it invaluable, and have [...]

As Everyone else locally is posting their “playlist on random” lists:

October Swimmer - JJ72
The Subordinate - Lisa Gerrard
Radiate - Fleming and John
Disarm - Smashing Pumpkings
Both Hands - Ani DiFranco
Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Wedding Present
Back on the Farm - Baader Meinhof
Haw - 16 Horsepower
Happy Hour - The Housemartins
Heart - Pet Shop Boys
Perfect 10 - [...]

Every few months for the last 2 years I’ve gone on the hunt for an RSS aggregator. Every time I’ve been disappointed. Everything I’ve tried has been clumsy and kludgy and made my blog reading harder, rather than easier. And so I’ve stuck with the routine of actively visiting all the blogs I read (of [...]

I’ve disabled comments and trackbacks to my weblog except to those who provide a signed FOAF URL, or a home page that links to one.
— Ken MacLeod
This should be interesting. If this takes off it should (a) increase the number of people with FOAF files, (b) increase the number of fradulent FOAF files, [...]

Recently I’ve been having trouble with my central heating. The timer would call for heat, but the boiler wouldn’t realise this, and so wouldn’t actually give me any.
I’ve had Pipeline Services out to look at it four times in the last month. Each time they “fixed” the problem, only for it to return in a [...]

Mediachest is a social software site that allows users to inventory their collection of physical media items and search the collections of their friends and friends-of-friends for items such as DVDs or books that they would like to borrow. The site facilitates the borrowing and loaning of these items in a similar way to how [...]

Meet Dudley Hiibel. He’s a 59 year old cowboy who owns a small ranch outside of Winnemucca, Nevada. He lives a simple life, but he’s his own man. You probably never would have heard of Dudley Hiibel if it weren’t for his belief in the U.S. Constitution.
One balmy May evening back in [...]

At work we keep trying to make the effort to look back after each project and learn from how it went. But we’ve never found a good way to structure this, and as a result we often don’t do it at all.
Johanna Rothman gives a
retrospective of a year of blogging, using a great set of [...]

This afternoon I was having a debate with Karen about whether or not The Law(tm) is a precise thing, and whether or not all those “getting off on a technicality” stories really only happen on TV.
I was therefore greatly amused to find a link on Boing Boing to an article on the San Francisco Superior [...]

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