There’s a new virus going around – and it’s producing babies. That’s about the only explanation I have for why just about everyone I know either just had a kid, is pregnant, or wants to be pregnant. I know I’m “at that age” where people tend to start popping out future farm hands, but it’s …
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.
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 …
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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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 …
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
Spotted this grateful Benz today while out hunting this cache. Pretty funny.
(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 …
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.
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 …