We launched our redesign of Yahoo! News tonight. http://news.yahoo.com/ I realized tonight that I do a major launch of a site about every 3 years. LAUNCHcast first came out in late 1999, with a redesign launch in late 2001, and now this. I’m pretty tired now. Someone wake me up in 3 years.
Programmers are lazy or maybe they just can’t count. More and more I see sites out there with dumb things like “1 page(s)” or worse just “1 pages”. I could find lots of Yahoo pages with this kind of stuff, but that’s beside the point – I’m providing help for lazy programmers who can’t count. …
This is the last of seven parts of the story of how I killed my answering machine. How complicated can it be to replace a simple little device with something a little more geeky? About 17 months, $500 and countless hours – that’s how complicated. Part VII: The Damage With everything finally working, it was …
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This is the sixth of seven parts of the story of how I killed my answering machine. How complicated can it be to replace a simple little device with something a little more geeky? About 17 months, $500 and countless hours – that’s how complicated. Part VI: Ethernot My TurboNet card still wasn’t working. I …
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This is the fifth of seven parts of the story of how I killed my answering machine. How complicated can it be to replace a simple little device with something a little more geeky? About 17 months, $500 and countless hours – that’s how complicated. Part V: My TiVo Gets Nervous With my TiVo networking …
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The new Yahoo! News Beta is out! We’ve been working on this for a long time and it’s great to finally let the world see it. It’s got some great stuff that I’ve been thinking about ever since I joined the Y! News team 3 years ago. It has bigger pictures, a cleaner look, IM …
This is the fourth of seven parts of the story of how I killed my answering machine. How complicated can it be to replace a simple little device with something a little more geeky? About 17 months, $500 and countless hours – that’s how complicated. Part IV: Modem Misery With Lingo working, there was only …
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This is the third of seven parts of the story of how I killed my answering machine. How complicated can it be to replace a simple little device with something a little more geeky? About 17 months, $500 and countless hours – that’s how complicated. Part III: Lingo Plan D: Lingo I lived with my …
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This is the second of seven parts of the story of how I killed my answering machine. How complicated can it be to replace a simple little device with something a little more geeky? About 17 months, $500 and countless hours – that’s how complicated. Part II: More Modems and Windows On December 16, 2003 …
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This is the story of how I killed my answering machine. How complicated can it be to replace a simple little device with something a little more geeky? About 17 months, $500 and countless hours – that’s how complicated. This story is ridiculously long, technical and includes lots of geeky terminology, so if you’re not …
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