Archive for February, 2008
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
In Print is Dead, one of Jeff Gomez's arguments in the chapter "On Demand Everything" struck me as peculiar. While I haven't finished the entire book yet, I find myself agreeing with almost all of his defenses of the e-book, even when he sometimes arrives at different conclusions than I do.
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
When I first starting working at Genuine Interactive, I asked a random question of Genuine's many web-gurus, who know infinitely more about web development than I do. The particular guru I queried was a Lithuanian MySQL database programmer named Jimbo, who in addition to having a penchant for quoting from the movie The Hunt for Red October, often relates to me, in his thick Russian accent, stories of what life was like in Lithuania.
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Nowadays, there are few reasons to use Flash. The least legitimate reason, I think, is to "spice up" the design of a site. Usually, spicing it up with Flash comes at the cost of functionality and accessibility. And what's more, the people who are usually asking for Flash developers to spice up their sites have no idea what Flash is capable of other than fancy animations.
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
I love science fiction, so I can't help it when news like Microsoft's hostile takeover of Yahoo! invites the possibility that the end result of these web conglomerates' struggles—that is, the battle between Google and Microsoft over who will control cyberspace—will be something out of science fiction: the unveiling of a speculative "Internet operating system," and our final transitioning into a truly Gibsonesque cyberspace.
