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Mystery messager – who are you?

6. April 2007

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Back in July, someone left this strange message (embedded and transcribed below). This is the AT&T relay service… with a relay call for this number. This call is for Adam DuVander. I would like your assistance in some web development. Some of my PHP has broken and I need some HTML to debug the JavaScript. Please call [...]

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How a web browser can save your life

23. March 2007

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If you care about your time, and I know you do, then you really ought to be using the Firefox web browser. To say it saves your life is not hyperbole. If you’re able to browse faster, you’ll be able to do more of the things you’d like to do. There are so many things I [...]

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Getting ready to mess with Texas

8. March 2007

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I’ll be at SXSW interactive conference this weekend. The last time I was in Austin, Clinton was president. I was in college. I didn’t own a laptop. I brought my non-digital camera to take pictures for my black and white photography class. Somewhere I have a great, grainy shot of a garbage can that, with the [...]

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I dream in bad interfaces

24. February 2007

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Right before waking up on this Saturday morning, I had a dream about bad interfaces. It was short and really just a one-liner. I was talking with my friend Tom when he complained about a web app: “I asked for driving directions and it gave me back stocks.” Sure, it’s far-fetched and dream-like, but is has [...]

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Self diagnosis with Web 2.0

22. February 2007

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Who needs a real doctor, right? Just type your symptoms into Healthline, or click on body parts at WebMD. These tools are pretty cool, but I don’t think anyone expects them to replace the good ol’ Doc. You wouldn’t hire the neighbor kid to make your website, right? Right? Those who know me personally probably know [...]

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Lordy, lordy, look who would’ve been forty

20. February 2007

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Today would have been Kurt Cobain’s 40th birthday. For a guy who is etched into our memories at 27, that sounds pretty old (sort of like imagining the forever young JFK, who’d turn 90 this year). The Belfast Telegraph has a good look at Cobain’s short life and his legacy. In 2002, Pete Townsend reviewed Cobain’s [...]

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I’ve got an itch at G6

26. January 2007

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Earlier this week I was having dinner at a friend’s house when I spotted a book of Unuseless Japanese Inventions. Some of them, like tiny shoe umbrellas, are… not exactly as the title suggests. Others are truly brilliant. The ones I like the most are very simple and solved actual problems. You can browse the book [...]

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Yahoo! should live in the now

17. January 2007

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I’m not much of a stock market guy, but I have periodically bought shares of companies I believe in. One of those is Yahoo!. I think their content strategy resonates with most people, and we each have at least one “channel” we could return to daily. The last year was pretty bad for YHOO, the stock. [...]

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Community Next Conference in February

4. January 2007

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There’s a great line-up of speakers for the Community Next conference. It’s a single Saturday in February at Stanford. If you’re into making the Web a better place and can get to the Bay Area, check this out. As far as conferences go, this is cheap ($195). And it can be even cheaper if you get [...]

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MetroFi won’t replace my ISP

3. January 2007

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First, let me say again how cool it is that Portland has city-supported, free WiFi. The Internet isn’t just a toy, it’s a tool. Making it available to everyone is super. For “power users” like me, MetroFi’s service won’t be replacing my current providers, nor stop me from going to coffee shops with their own connection. [...]

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