Archive for February, 2005

OSIX
Monday, February 21st, 2005

A week ago I was killing some time waiting for M’s flight and I noticed a URL in my referrer logs from a site I was unfamiliar with. The link was to a fun technical piece I wrote and I was curious to see why, so I followed the referrer back to the source. But [...]

MUNI Photography
Saturday, February 19th, 2005

The fact of the matter is this — this country has both laws and a process by which we create those laws. And as far as we are able to respect that process we are to respect the laws that are manifested as a result.
However, when that process is subverted, then those laws are unjust. [...]

Amazon Prime
Friday, February 18th, 2005

In case you hadn’t heard about it, Amazon recently introduced an all-you-can-eat expedited shipping plan called “Amazon Prime.”

At first I held back signing up for it, figuring that I often qualify for free shipping anyway. And people that buy a lot from Amazon knew the secret — that standard shipping often arrives in two days, [...]

New A9 Toolbar
Friday, February 18th, 2005

A9 just released a new version of the A9 Toolbar. In addition to all the old useful features, such as fast searches, annotating web pages, managing bookmarks, site info, etc., this version adds a feature that many of our users have been asking for — the ability to turn the history on or off with [...]

Redesign
Thursday, February 17th, 2005

I made some modifications to the layout. Mostly to reduce the page weight and migrate toward strict HTML and CSS compliance.
Also, because I read Russell Beattie Notebook on an almost daily basis and love the clean design he chose.
And as usual, I haven’t even looked at it in I.E. So more changes are sure to [...]