Announcing the Rivington Redirector, a free, open-source, web-services-enabled, AJAX-enabled, URL shortening tool.
Actually, it isn’t that impressive, especially considering how sites like TinyURL have been doing this forever. Heck, even I wrote a redirector before.
But this one is based on top of Essex, the toolkit in the new project, so it was [...]
Mostly due to the positive influence of M., I’ve been spending more and more time in the kitchen. (This coming from a man who somehow lived in the same Manhattan apartment for two years, yet never even managed to take the styrofoam packaging out of the dishwasher.) And as a result, we’re in [...]
Driving home this evening I heard a short piece on All Things Considered about how the New York Times ran a correction on a obituary that ran 13 years ago.
Here’s the summary:
On Monday, The New York Times ran a correction on the obituary it published for the late William G. McLoughlin. McLoughlin died in [...]
In reference to this BBC article that claims people who illegally download music also “spent four and a half times more on paid-for music downloads than average fans”, a friend of mine writes: How long have we all known this, and yet it’s still news? And she has a point — we do all know that. [...]
A few days ago I said that “the JavaScript world needs to build a shared code repository like CPAN. Otherwise it will always be just another hack of a hack.” (If that sounds too critical out of context, please <a href=”read the full post.) Well, I just read on Ajaxian that some Perl [...]
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