Scripting News

Tue, 25 May 2004 01:58:05 GMT

Andrew needed to get something out of his system.

Tue, 25 May 2004 00:21:32 GMT

Bush speaks on Iraq. More good news, he says. Everything is going great. Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. It seems they have more say in the future of the US than US citizens do. I read today that our national parks are falling apart. How about that.

Tue, 25 May 2004 00:19:52 GMT

Looks like some new interop is booting on the Mac, led by Brent Simmons, author of NetNewsWire. I love to see developers working together to make software work better for users. Bravo!

Mon, 24 May 2004 15:51:06 GMT

Jay McCarthy: "Having your house burn in front of you is a very strange experience." Amazing story. Jay is a Thursday night regular. Lisa Williams has started a PayPal account for donations to the McCarthy family.

Mon, 24 May 2004 18:44:59 GMT

Bush would find ample precedent if he chose not to seek reelection. "His escalation of American involvement in the Vietnam War eroded his popular standing and led to his decision not to run for reelection to the presidency in 1968."

Mon, 24 May 2004 18:49:21 GMT

CBS: "Forty-one percent approve of the job he is doing as president, while 52 percent disapprove -- the lowest overall job rating of his presidency."

Mon, 24 May 2004 17:43:28 GMT

Jakob Nielsen: Thirty Years With Computers.

Mon, 24 May 2004 19:12:20 GMT

Wired: "Once a year, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates lectures the nation's top CEOs on how much more productivity they'll get from adopting new technologies."

Mon, 24 May 2004 16:50:53 GMT

In NYC last week I saw a tremendous number of iPods. People with the white iPod-ish ear phones. When I could find the unit it was one of the new small color ones. Conclusion: they're selling a lot of these suckers.

Mon, 24 May 2004 16:12:52 GMT

A friend of Michael Gartenberg's asked why there are so many debates about syndication, and Michael looks to the Talmud for the answer.

Mon, 24 May 2004 16:39:52 GMT

I got my first stock alert from RSS Quotes. Interesting format.

Mon, 24 May 2004 13:10:43 GMT

Don Park: "What if a DEMO conference could be held every month?"

Mon, 24 May 2004 10:22:08 GMT

Transcript of last night's CBS interview with General Anthony Zinni.

Mon, 24 May 2004 10:51:47 GMT

On this day in 1999, a milestone essay, Edit This Page, explained how easy-to-use Web content management would develop. It was accurate, it is largely how it evolved. "When I'm reading a web page that I wrote, if I spot a mistake, I have to execute 23 complicated error-prone steps to make the change." That was the problem. Here's the solution. "Every bit of text that I created has a button that says Edit this Page when I view it. When I click the button, a new page opens with the text in an HTML textarea. I edit. Click on Submit. The original page displays with the change. Three easy steps."

Mon, 24 May 2004 10:12:00 GMT

Bernie Goldbach sends a pointer to a Sunday Times article about syndication. I can't read it because I don't have a subscription. Here's a quote that Bernie sends along. "The hot topic of today is Really Simple Syndication (RSS), the answer for anyone with news deprivation."

Mon, 24 May 2004 11:46:00 GMT

Travelocity asks for feedback from customers. They don't ask the key question: "Why are you spending several hundred dollars a month with our competitors and not with us?" A perfect demo of a company in need of a trip on the Cluetrain.

Mon, 24 May 2004 10:06:19 GMT

Philip Miseldine: "I'm not going to give credence to a new specification when the one we have already works perfectly fine."