Archive - February 2007
Placebo
2007-02-12 14:09
Link: Placebo
According to Dave Hyatt, people are suspectible to placebo settings in browsers.
Steve Yegge talks about ECMAScript 4
2007-02-11 15:50
Link: Steve Yegge talks about ECMAScript 4
Steve Yegge writes about the “Next Big Language”. Even if he’s attempting to not disclose what he thinks it is, I’m pretty confident he’s talking about ECMAScript 4, which has the big industry backing needed to be a Big Language.
Soliciting public feedback from me
2007-02-09 16:38
Lately, my inbox has started to fill with requests for me making public feedback on Web 2.0 and mobile services. Whether this is a function of what I write on this blog, if it is a function of the readership of this blog, where I work or something entirely else, I have one simple response:
I will not pursue or even evaluate services and businesses when people solicit feedback from me, nor will I give any plugs on any service. If someone has something interesting they think I should see, that is in direct relation to something I’ve written before, meaning it has to reference one or more specific entries on this blog, I may take a look at the service, but I more often than not will likely choose not to write about it.
That was my guarantee, the one that never went public. The one I just made public has one addition: Under any circumstance, I will not look at, evaluate, endorse or mention any services that exist on the .mobi TLD. I believe .mobi to be directly harmful to device interoperability, further it is directly harmful to an open and unified web, and if I was dictator of the Internet, I would wipe .mobi off the map, along with a few of the other new TLDs. For the sake of the FSM, the .xxx TLD makes about a million times more sense than the walled-garden web of .mobi.
It is a direct result of me being in a particular good mood that I don’t disclose the name of the company of the last mail with such an ‘offer’ I got today, that was written in Comic Sans nontheless. I’m not suspective to be a promo engine for anyone, I think .mobi should die, and everytime you use Comic Sans, god kills a kitten.
Thank you for listening.
Apple, iTunes and DRM
2007-02-07 10:15
Link: Apple, iTunes and DRM
Open letter from Steve Jobs about iTunes and DRM.
Convincing [the four major labels] to license their music to Apple and others DRM-free will create a truly interoperable music marketplace. Apple will embrace this wholeheartedly.
Chat with Håkon Wium Lie
2007-02-06 09:59
Ok. Ever wanted to chat with the father of CSS? Now you have the chance. Håkon is participating in an IRC chat session lasting from 17.00 to 18.00 CET on Wednesday February 7th, 2006. From the announcement:
He’ll take questions on any of his many passions: CSS, ACID2 (or 3), microformats, the One Laptop Per Child project, Web standards.
Join #webapps on irc.opera.com to participate.
World's worst songs
2007-02-05 15:17
Ok, this is the international edition of a piece I recently wrote on my other weblog (international, as in: I’ve taken out one entry, and made it a top-9 list instead of a top ten, and I’ve provided a YouTube-link for another song). In more or less ranked order, these are the songs that would work should you ever need to torture me.
- Crazy Frog - Axel F
- There is no more appropriate symbol of my limitless hate towards Jamba(Jamster) than this song. Since I’m opposed to the death penalty, I sadly cannot suggest it in this case either, no matter how tempting it may be. Recently, when I was visiting a record store, my five year old son pointed at a Crazy Frog album, and when I pointed out that CF was no fun, he tried to protest and say it’s fun for kids, I replied “Sorry, but we don’t bring that pop-cultural trash to our house”. Really.
- Fuentes/Lind/Holm/Nilsen - Hallelujah
- I blame this performance of the old Cohen classic, starring former World Idol winner Kurt Nilsen, for global warming due to the excessive spinning taking place in Jeff Buckley’s grave. You don’t believe me? Well, you can decide for yourself over at YouTube.
- Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman
- A hit back when I was a teenager, this song still holds the title of most annoying “lyrics” ever;
La da dee da dee da da
. Aarrgh. - Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
- Titanic would probably have been an OK movie without this song. Someone gave me this song as a christmas present years ago. I would’ve prefered a pair of socks.
- The White Stripes - Jolene
- Hey Jack White. Get your hands off Jolene! Now!
- Oasis - Wonderwall
- Ok. I probably just made some britpop-fans choke on their morning tea (or was that the morning beer?). This song is a symbol of everything that’s ever been wrong with britpop. It also happens to be a symbol of everything that’s going to be wrong about britpop whenever it reemerges.
- Christina Aguilera - Lady Marmelade
- Do I really need to say anything?
- Nelly Furtado - All Good Things (Come To An End)
- Ok. I just don’t understand Nelly Furtado. She’s done an above average version of Gnarls Barkley, “Crazy”, and then goes on to release this crap. I just don’t get it.
- The Fugees - Killing Me Softly
- When this song was popular, I always turned off the radio. I just rediscovered that I do. To prevent me from puking.
So: What’s your list?
dojo.query: A CSS Query Engine For Dojo
2007-02-05 08:19
Link: dojo.query: A CSS Query Engine For Dojo
dojo.query is a CSS Selector Query engine that performs very well in Opera and WebKit nightlies, tolerably in Firefox. MSIE performance is left at the mercy of IE engineers lack of support for XPath on the HTML DOM
Using Quod Libet with Rockboxed iPods
2007-02-04 20:14
Link: Using Quod Libet with Rockboxed iPods
David Petar Novakovic has posted a patch for Quod Libet (0.24 and up) which allows you to sync your rockboxed iPod with Quod Libet, something that solves one of my gripes with MP3 players on Linux. He eventually aims to get his patch into the mainline Quod Libet source
Bookmarklets for Opera Mini
2007-02-02 12:02
Link: Bookmarklets for Opera Mini
Neat howto on using bookmarklets in Opera Mini