Archive for March, 2004

Dangerous XFN

Geof Morris highlights the potential dangers of XFN in site comments. As I indicated in a comment on Geof’s site, I’d need much more free time than I currently have available to address the issue at the search engine level. Interesting problem though.
Just while I’m here, I’ll give a quick Rubhub stats update: [...]

A Radical Position on TypeKey

It’s not a terribly radical position, just a slightly radical one. If I wanted to be terribly radical, I’d remain entirely silent. But I haven’t mastered patience yet; I’ve only taken it out for dinner and a movie.
Here’s my radical position: I’m prepared to wait until TypeKey has been launched before I evaluate [...]

Random Embarrassing Ephemera

Last week a colleague asked me to prepare a report from one of our systems as a spreadsheet, so I extracted a bunch of data from the system, made it look presentable, saved it to my desktop, wrote up an email telling her that it was attached, and then attached a totally different spreadsheet that [...]

When you win 5 you get a new house and a boat

Congrats to Claire for winning best Australian blog for the 4th year in a row.
I didn’t vote. Is that bad?
Also, in other news, I’ve been coveting a G5. There’s no chance of getting one of course; but it’s good to have goals… and a rich fantasy life.

flickr = synergy

the spankme building
Originally uploaded by precipice.
Posted by ditto from

One of the impressive things about flickr is the way that it’s building bridges with the blogging infrastructure. I can subscribe to syndication feeds for any group page I’m interested in, and now I can create a blog entry based on a public photo in flickr. [...]