I left iChat open but set my status to away when I went out for lunch, and when I got back and touched my computer again it told me “Welcome back! Would you like to set your status to Available?” I like […]

My daughter can tear off her shoes and socks, spit on her hands and climb right to the top of a lamp post. Once at the top, she slides joyously down again. Imagine being half the size of a grownup yet seeing […]

Miligo just posted a long and thoughtful comment to my post on Powerpoint. I like how old discussions can reappear on the front page again when someone happens to comment on an old post. I like my prominent display of new comments. […]

William Cole’s started blogging! I know William from Hypertext conferences, and it’s good to see he’s joined the blogosphere.

Yes, I’m blogging like crazy because I’ve cleared the whole day so I can concentrate on working on two pieces I’m writing and so I was just going to have a few minutes of surfing first… I’ll start concentrating on the essays […]

Gonzalo Frasca and friends have released Newsgaming, a site where political cartoons and games meet. The first game up is called September 12th, and is a simulation where killing terrorists spawns new terrorists. I like how after you fired a rocket you’re […]

You’ve noticed, perhaps, that Verisign have hijacked the net to show their website every time you mistype a .com or .net address so that your browser can’t find the server you’ve asked for? There’s some interesting, though complicated, discussion of this, monopoly […]

70 things to say when you’re losing a technical argument.

The national library in Norway refuses to give ISSNs to weblogs, although many weblogs clearly fit the definition of a periodical worthy of an ISSN: periodical, archived, dated, one title, some kind of serious (faglig) content, etc. Obviously the ISSN system, with […]