Archive for July, 2005

The Rivington Redirector
Saturday, July 30th, 2005

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 [...]

Kitchen Knife Recommendations?
Thursday, July 28th, 2005

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 [...]

New York Times 13-Year-Old Correction
Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

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 [...]

Filesharing helps record sales?
Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

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. [...]

JSAN
Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

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 [...]