Archive for September, 2005

Bad AIM beta defaults

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

The opinions expressed here are the personal opinions of Terry Chay. Content published here is not read or approved by Plaxo before it is posted and does not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Plaxo.
The AIM Beta a.k.a. “Triton” has been out for a while and one thing I’ve noticed that bugs me is [...]

Showing the rendered source

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

When working with highly dynamic websites, one problem is the view-source doesn’t show the dynamic content that was generated. What you want is a snapshot of the DOM at the time.
I decided to whip one up into my AJAX debugging framework after which Joseph suggested that it be a bookmarklet instead.
rendered source
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SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Showing [...]

Identity 2.0

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

Identity 2.0, uploaded by tychay.

Joseph mentioned that Dick Hardt has posted his excellent Identity 2.0 presentation he gave as OSCON.
This is a great presentation with a excellent use of Lawrence Lessig simplicity combined with some of the new text effects in Keynote to emphasize it.
It is very easy to get the repetition/refrain that Dick uses [...]

Jon Stewart Emmy Speech

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

John Stewart’s two things uploaded by tychay.

Dru pointed me to an excellent Jon Stewart presentation of an award at the Emmy’s.
It’s quintessential Daily Show. He definitely wouldn’t have gotten away with this on CBS two years ago.
Another interesting thing is to see that the liberal blog linked got the video from a right-wing blog. It’s [...]

Just what the country needs right now: more tax cuts

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

A bill for hurricane relief passed the house at 422 to 0. This is all well and good, but tax breaks aren’t an efficient way of distributing goods to the needy. Economically, the only difference between giving a tax break for hurricane-related charitable donations and just raising taxes and giving the money directly is the [...]

Bad Design Kills

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

bad design kills sticker from baddesignkills.com.

It makes sense that with business internet and insta-companies that people would looking to have instant original logos (and on the cheap).
That’s why it is so fascinating when BoingBoing pointed out a fascinating site that catalogs stolen logo designs by one such online logo design services.
Wow! talk about blatant. My [...]

Dell DJ Ditty

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

Dell DJ Ditty, originally uploaded by tychay.

Dell is about to introduce the long-awaited (I’m sure) DJ Ditty (purchase).
An eyesore and an eight month turnaround to copy a device consisting of generic components. Is this what “player-hater”, Robert Enderle, meant when he said, “Historically staid companies like Gateway, HP, Acer, and even Dell are much [...]

Since when did being a geek mean being moron?

Monday, September 19th, 2005

A simulation of large-scale structure
formation, from University of Chicago Center for Cosmological Physics.

This Wired article is a wonderful example about how unpractical our country’s basic math education is.
The reporter wastes the first page on his idiot attempt to find a truly random playlist. A little knowledge is a highly dangerous thing. After learning that [...]

Talk Like A Pirate

Monday, September 19th, 2005

Talk Like a Pirate, originally from this download site.

Ahoy!
Just before I went ta check what crawled out of the bunghole, me buxom beauty has told me that, it be International Talk like a Pirate Day.
Almost everyone I mentioned it ta at work be walked the plank. The only non-lubber left on the crew be the [...]

Plaxo Downloads chooser

Friday, September 16th, 2005

The opinions expressed here are the personal opinions of Terry Chay. Content published here is not read or approved by Plaxo before it is posted and does not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Plaxo.
I noticed last week that Plaxo made the downloads chooser the default downloads page:

Plaxo downloads chooser, originally uploaded by tychay.

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