http://www.globalspin.com/tech/ Technical musings off the beaten path. en-us chris@globalspin.com 2006-01-25T09:38:54-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.globalspin.com/tech/archives/000689.html (Author's note: Chris Messina implored us to blog about Mash Pit. I didn't want to just parrot other excellent posts, so here's my demented version of the event.) Four thirty. A.M., as in oh-dark-thirty. Ben and Karen will be asleep... 689@http://www.globalspin.com/tech/ Web 2.0 2006-01-25T09:38:54-08:00 http://www.globalspin.com/tech/archives/000681.html From a comment I posted over at Peter Caputa's blog: The Web 2.17 design ethic replaces tiny grey text and big colorful images with tiny grey images and big colorful text. Flickr repurposes itself as a freefont archive. Yahoo, Google,... 681@http://www.globalspin.com/tech/ Web 2.0 2006-01-12T16:32:47-08:00 http://www.globalspin.com/tech/archives/000632.html Brian Dear just posted a ginormous, well-thought-out post on where Eventful and EVDB fit in the Web 2.0 universe. It's primarily a response to Tim O'Reilly's post asking What is Web 2.0 but it's also leading up to the Web... 632@http://www.globalspin.com/tech/ Web 2.0 2005-10-03T15:41:53-08:00 http://www.globalspin.com/tech/archives/000614.html I can't believe it took me this long. I just realized that videophones, which I normally consider to be a nice-to-have addition to voice conversation (or chat), are an amazing leap forward for deaf person. In fact, it would probably... 614@http://www.globalspin.com/tech/ Web 2.0 2005-09-01T09:32:29-08:00 http://www.globalspin.com/tech/archives/000587.html The adage goes: "XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it." Parand Darugar has challenged that idea (or validated the sarcasm) with a compelling case for abolishing XML namespaces. I never did... 587@http://www.globalspin.com/tech/ XML 2005-07-21T09:23:10-08:00 http://www.globalspin.com/tech/archives/000575.html I was so keen on the idea of pushing a module to CPAN that I almost didn't catch a fatal flaw in my scheme. Mac OS X (motto: It Just Works) was doing something odd to my tarball as it... 575@http://www.globalspin.com/tech/ Macintosh 2005-07-01T09:33:26-08:00 http://www.globalspin.com/tech/archives/000572.html The worst part of having multiple e-mail addresses is keeping on top of new messages without spending every waking moment checking each account in sequence. That's why I love Gee!, a functional little GMail notifier for Mac OS X. Gee... 572@http://www.globalspin.com/tech/ Macintosh 2005-06-29T09:45:51-08:00 http://www.globalspin.com/tech/archives/000568.html I've been using GMail a lot lately. I've shunted my public-facing e-mail address through it, and the spam filtering has been surprisingly effective. I'm also interested in the AJAXy goodness they've implemented, which gets around some of the interface headaches... 568@http://www.globalspin.com/tech/ AJAX 2005-06-27T13:47:08-08:00 http://www.globalspin.com/tech/archives/000567.html It's good to be back on CPAN. It's been over a year since Apache::PSP went 1.0, and I haven't had much chance to come up with publicly-useful Perl modules since then. That's why it felt really good to post the... 567@http://www.globalspin.com/tech/ Web 2.0 2005-06-25T22:19:15-08:00 http://www.globalspin.com/tech/archives/000564.html ...or at least annoyed me today. I'm new to this Web 2.0 thing, but I've been getting up to speed over the last few weeks. To do so, I got hooked into Flickr, del.icio.us, and Technorati among others. More on... 564@http://www.globalspin.com/tech/ Web 2.0 2005-06-21T11:04:49-08:00 http://www.globalspin.com/tech/archives/000563.html If you can read this, then it means the creation of the new Tech sub-blog is complete. It's alive! fiendish cackle... 563@http://www.globalspin.com/tech/ Blog 2005-06-21T10:03:32-08:00