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Lately I’ve been lurking on a cascading style sheets discussion list. By my standards, it’s high-traffic, with 3-4 digests generated daily. But people who wrote reference books I rely on participate; it’s often very useful. (And the wiki/FAQ is a goldmine.)
The list is also quite intolerant of off-topic messages. The typical response from the moderators […]

I realize that mine is a lone voice crying in the wilderness. By the time I hear of impending federal changes, big wheels are already turning, and I’m unlikely to be able to affect their courses.
But honestly, has anybody thought about how much time, money, and aggravation would be saved if the USPS adopted a […]

Is it just me, or has Jakob Nielsen’s alertbox column on weblog usability garnered an unprecedented quantity of mainstream discussion/comment? Seems like a lot of people who aren’t usability wonks are talking about it.
You might note that I was shamed into added an author photo (of sorts) to this site, but I disagree strongly on […]

Hurricane Katrina has several things to teach us, if we have the courage to learn from it.
One hard lesson is that our fossil fuel use is much too close to the production and delivery capacity.
Forget for a moment arguments about how finite the resources are or aren’t. This fluctuation in production/delivery had a […]

“shutting up, sir”

I’ve been pretty happy with ZoneLabs’ ZoneAlarm firewall software since my computer security expert friend recommended it a couple years ago, but the update I installed this morning made it virtually useless.
The way ZoneAlarm works has always been pretty simple: whenever a program tries to open an Internet connection, you get a dialog telling you […]

learn, Hollywood, learn

that’s “deux” as in “duplicitous”