Archive for August, 2005

Firefox and Camino on the Apple

August 23rd, 2005

Dave Winer has bought an Apple so he can work on the OPML editor for it. He’s complaining about how much he hates using Safari. I’m not sure whether or not it’s because he hates Apple or because of the actual software. That’s his perogative. There are 2 extremely good options other than IE or […]


RSS in Australia

August 14th, 2005

It’s interesting to see the take up on different technologies here in Australia. Some things get to market really quickly and others take their sweet time. RSS views of news feeds still isn’t here, News Limited and the major TV stations don’t have them, though The Melbourne Age does. With most of the major news […]


XFN for Organizations

August 11th, 2005

There has been a fair amount of Hoo-Haa surrounding Tim O’Reilly in the past week or so, most recently about some dubious looking links on the O’Reilly websites. He has replied with a good round up about whether or not what has happened is wrong or not.
For mine, I don’t think it’s necessarily bad, […]


The Customer is always Stupid

August 9th, 2005

There is an old customer service adage, The Customer is Always Right, however in my time doing phone support for computers and telephone systems I have come to the realisation this isn’t correct. The question isn’t whether or not they are right or not (and you should never let them know that you think they […]


Weighing in on FOO

August 6th, 2005

There has been a huge uproar about the whole FOO camp bonanza. There is alot of buzz on the A-List about who has been invited and who hasn’t. As far as I can see it would be a cracker of a weekend with some of the smartest people getting around. If I was having a […]


A Word on Technorati Tags

August 2nd, 2005

Om Malik talks about sending traffic to technorati by adding tags to his site. While I’m not sure about using a program like Ecto, the tags here on my site don’t send any traffic to Technorati and still show up in there searches. While I link to a page that shows everything within that tag […]