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New user? Saturday, January 19, 2002
It's kids play for Mario
"It was the same thing in Vancouver and Calgary, too," he said. "A lot of young kids."
Oh man, what I wouldn't do to be at that game in Edmonton tonight. :-(
2001.a and 2001.b
Last week I was thinking about 2001, which was really two years... one from Jan 1 to September 10, and another from September 11 to December 31.
There wasn't much happy to report in 2001.b. Things pretty much sucked all around.
2001.a was pretty decent, though. One of my favourite world moments from 2001.a was when Goran Ivanisevic won Wimbledon. I hope the world finds something in 2002 to celebrate with as much joy as Crotia (and Croatians everywhere) did that week.
I hope to have a little baby to celebrate soon. :-)
Friday, January 18, 2002
Winerlog
I read WinerLog from time to time. "Logging Dave Winer. Because Somebody Has to Do It." Sometimes they're beyond outrageous, and seriously offensive. I'm sure what they say bothers Dave Winer. As DW said JLG said, the higher up the tree the monkey climbs the more people can see it's derriere...
Lately, WinerLog has been unable to ping the weblogs.com change notification server, and the evaluation Radio8 site they created was taken down
This really bothers me. For the record, I find it very offensive and suspect that they would block a weblog on weblogs.com, but, to their credit, they continue to host WinerLog for free on editthispage.com (although they have threatened to kill the site before and relented after public opinion suggested that would be a bad idea). UserLand Software, Inc., might (IANAL) be within its rights to do what they're doing (but recent cases suggest this is a slippery slope), but that's besides the point.
If this continues I think the weblogging community should discuss whether or not it is tolerable to rely on weblogs.com when it doesn't allow all weblogs to participate.
Update: I just found out that the MetaFilter community has been discussing this too.
Thursday, January 17, 2002
Defending WebObjects' Honour
Today on Backup Brain, Dori Smith said:
Thanks for the high regards Dori. B-)
But Dori... you didn't try very hard. At the bottom of the document on kbase.info.apple.com is a form, "Email this document". I sent myself the document. Right at the top of the document is:
Link to original article: PowerBook and iBook: Resetting Power Manager
Note the URL: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n14449 ... it redirected me to http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449 . Both are perfectly linkable directly. And it could have been if it was a WO URL too.
something like:
http://kbase.info.apple.com/cgi-bin/ WebObjects/kbase.woa/wa/showDocument?artnum=14449
(I just made that URL up, it doesn't work...)
The problem isn't WebObjects, it's whoever did the design of the support site. There's no reason why a WO site can't have bookmarkable links... none whatsoever. Hopefully Apple will just program their kbase app properly so it exposes a direct link to documents without the email step.
