Category Archive for: ‘Reviews’

• Defensive Design for the Web

  Oh, one quick review. Yesterday, I received my copy of “Defensive Design for the Web,” written by the 37 signals guys. Man, it covers most of my pet peeves about poor web design, complete with examples of a site that violated the rule and one …

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• These Shoes Are Made For…?

  Yesterday, mom happened to pick up a cool pair of shoes, telling me that the store carried wide sizes. And, if we had time, maybe we could go back today and see if there were any shoes for me. So we trundled off to The …

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• Alias season closer

  This season, Alias seemed like it had jumped the shark — or, if not actually jumped, had practiced a few leaps. The season closer, though, shows that the form is back — the pacing was more J. J. Adams than it has been all year. …

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• Gmail outages

  I’ve been getting gmail “oops” alerts constantly tonight — like 90% of the time I’m trying to do something. Naturally, my BayCon email box is on gmail, which only means that mission-critical stuff that I need to do isn’t getting done. I knew there was …

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• Ruby on Rails: First Glance

  A lot of Pythonistas dislike ruby because it’s too perl-like. I can see what they’re saying. However, the ruby code I’ve read is all organized very cleanly. I don’t know if it’s possible to be as ugly in ruby as it is in perl, but …

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• Veronica Mars

  I have just one thing to say about the closing scene of the season finale of Veronica Mars. Bastards. ::sigh:: I mean that in the nicest possible way — they’re so good about luring you in. I hope it doesn’t do the Twin Peaks Season …

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• Now it Can Be Told

  Waterfield has a Mac Mini bag. Undoubtedly as wonderful as their other bags.

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• Waterfield bags

  After getting a case of bag envy last week seeing someone else’s Waterfield case, I again realized that my own computer bag — the second from same manufacturer — was falling apart. Grr. So I went rummaging through the Waterfield site, looking for what I …

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• Smofcon, License to Smof

  So, normally, I wouldn’t bother putting some of this in at all, but I was required to provide a trip report. Under the Toyota principle (“you asked for it, you got it”), here’s The Rest of the Story. First, a disclaimer: there are many genuinely …

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• Restaurant Gar

  It’s tiring having to tell people all the time, “No, I can’t have that, it’s probably got wheat in it.” Bread they understand, pasta they sometimes do, but items such as Rice Dream (a rice milk), they’re less likely to. Nor do most people have …

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