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Mr Gruff and Other Things

  • This goat rocks
  • Exploded PCs — some really interesting thoughts here. What’s most interesting is that the problem of how to get the smaller, focused, specialised components to talk to each other and cooperate effectively is a hell of a lot like what we spend our time on in our Agents and E-Commerce class
  • Camels and Rubber Duckies — Joel’s latest (and fantastic) rant about pricing. Quite long, but well worth the read 🙂
  • This article on how too much comment spam on a MT site can lead to massively reduced pagerank and way high server loads, combined with the amount of spam I’ve had to deal with recently makes me think I really should start wandering over to WordPress for a closer look. Not least because I could write a for-loop in Perl, let alone mod the publishing system, whereas PHP I find quite comfortable to work/play with
  • A story about elementary school lunches. My version of this was thinking that wearing uniforms at school was utter crap. The teachers & parents all tried to convince us that it was best — I only later realised that what they meant was at least if everyone was wearing a uniform it was harder to tell who was poorer, even if it was still obvious which were bought second-hand
  • Words Without Borders
  • Penguin diving — holiday fun!
  • Make Love, Not Salad and this view from inside are two gems from Dorrk.com
  • EPIC — a fantastic vision of what the future of news will bring
  • Hack Yourself is very insightful and has some very actionable points
  • Small Screen CSS
  • NORAD really does track Santa. Hell, I thought this was just a Userfriendly joke
  • Nice review of Thunderbird — I keep meaning to install this and never get around to it. Can’t decide if it’s a viable plan for me to try just having one local copy of email — it may well be that Gmail has superseded my need for an email client
  • Too fat for Burger King
  • I wasn’t quite this bad when my first January in the UK was rather white, but it did make me laugh
  • Masters of their Universe
Posted by Meri @ 12:28 PM on December 27, 2004
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