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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

I am very happy to point people to the new A9 Developer Blog. We are launching this new blog to better involve the community in the work of A9. I will be posting frequently over there about OpenSearch and other topics of general interest regarding search. Other people on the team will [...]

Fridays are a good time to take a few minutes and step away from the details of day-to-day development and turn instead to the big picture. Fridays are unfortunately also bad days for posting long articles, so you may want to bookmark this and come back to it on Monday.
So what is Web 2.0? [...]

I’m not much of a gamer. (Unless, of course, you ask M. — I’m sure she’d tell you that any bit is more than enough.) I’ll occasionally go through a phase in which I’ll pick up the current generation of consoles and buy the big hits. But my attention span is pretty [...]

As has been widely reported, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has acquired Intermix Media, Inc. for $580 million. Intermix Media is the company that controls MySpace, the popular social networking site. (Read the press release Fox buys MySpace reposted over at Boycott-RIAA.com.)
On one level, I offer my congratulations to Tom and the other guys [...]

I will be out of town and offline for the next few days, but I wanted to give a quick update on the new project before I left.
I have some new heros in the technology world. They are the men and women that build rich browser-based client-side applications. First-rate examples include Gmail, the [...]