MIME oh My
MIME headers (like Subject:, From:, etc.) are great for email and web requests, but do we really need them on receipts?? This is what I got when I rented a movie at the Yahoo Quick-E-Mart today.
Archive of entries posted by Jeff Boulter
My Birthday’s Coming
And it’s a significant one. Do you know what you’re getting me? Here’s a strong suggestion and something I’ve been waiting for for a long time – the Treo 650! My Treo 300 is most certainly my most-used device. Besides being my cell phone, iit’s my mobile web browser, address book, email client, geocaching tool …
Having too much fun with conference room names
Yahoo! has a tradition of giving its conference room names fun and creative names. Some are national parks, some are board games, others are tropical islands. On my floor, they’re all ‘in’ words like conceivable, sane and articulate. The idea is to trick you into saying things like ‘Come here. I’m insane.” Witty. Some go …
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“Performant” is not a word
Well actually it is, but it’s not what you think, even though it should be. At one point I thought I invented the word ‘performant’ as a term to mean “performs acceptably” or “it’s really fast!!” kinda like ‘compliant’. But then I noticed other people I didn’t know were using it too. The only problem …
Bay Area Digital Maps
I’m just cruisin’ the web, looking for maps, when I came across these awesome digital satellite maps of the bay area. You can even download huge versions of the files suitable for printing. If you look closely you can see waves and underwater currents in the water. Neat stuff. SF Bay Images
THX YHOO
Spotted this grateful Benz today while out hunting this cache. Pretty funny.
iPod Thoughts
(Written on a plane a few weeks ago.) Now that I’ve had my 40GB iPod for a while and had the chance to take it on some trips, I thought I’d post my thoughts on it. First, I love my iPod. It’s a great device and I love having all the music I’ve been collecting …
Getting your daily fiber
I think I’ll try this at my next meeting. Yahoo! News – Gorilla Seeks Help Using Sign Language They crowded around her, and Koko, who plays favorites, asked one woman wearing red to come closer. The woman handed her a business card, which Koko promptly ate.
REST is a webpage of XML
Everytime I read an article about REST interfaces, they go into this long diabtribe about what REST isn’t and how it compares to SOAP and XML-RPC. None of them spend any time actually describing what REST. Maybe it’s because it so simple. It’s a URL that returns XML. That’s it. Like this: http://boulter.com/rest.xml It’s just …
Rattlesnakes!
I’ve never seen a rattlesnake in the wild, but living in California it’s probably inevitable that I will someday. Here’s some good information on rattlesnakes and what to do if you get bit. http://www.calpoison.org/public/rattler.html My favorite advice: Don’t keep rattlesnakes as pets. Many bites occur when people, usually intoxicated males in your 20’s, tease their …