Everyone is entitled to my opinion
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 29th, 2008
If you’re a golfer like me, or familiar at all with the sport, you’ve probably heard of Natalie Gulbis. She’s the leggy, blond golf pro who not only looks good, but has the game to have won on the LPGA tour, which is no mean feat. Most professional golfers struggle for years and never come [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 23rd, 2008
If there are any WordPress plugin coders reading this, I need your help.
I’m writing a WordPress plugin to add Open Microblogging Support to a blog. In order to do this, I’d like the plugin to add a special OpenMicroblogging Page to the blog. This special Page is supported by a custom Page Template. Page Templates [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 4th, 2008
@Pamelump (Pamela Leigh Seiple) just tagged me with this photo meme. I have to go to the 6th photo on my 6th Flickr page and write a blog post about it.
Ok, so the aforementioned photo (6,6) is this one:
This photo is from a set I made about a year ago, on a very cold [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, development on Nov 23rd, 2008
After spending quite a few hours on yesterdays post, OAuth and OMB post-sharing, it occurred to me with the first cup of coffee this morning that I had missed one important user interface twist in the use of OAuth that actually makes it quite necessary.
It depends on how the UI for subscribing works. If, as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 22nd, 2008
This post has been superseded. I missed an important web UI issue which lead me to an incorrect conclusion.
Square peg, round hole
The OpenMicroBlogging Specification (OMB) contains a section on the use of OAuth to authorize a remote service to post to a user’s local service. After spending some time studying the OAuth and OMB specs, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 6th, 2008
This morning, I read an excellent blog post entitled “A Failure of Ideas, not Execution”, by Hank Williams, which was copied on the nextNY blog. It’s about the failure of most Web 2.0 companies to be acquired because they don’t have any strategy for making money from their ideas. One particular aspect of these failures [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 5th, 2008
I’ve been tweeting this weekend about making chili. I love chili and over a lot of years, I’ve refined my recipe to the point where it’s easy to make and tastes great. When I started out making chili, I experimented with different recipes and ingredients. I threw everything but the kitchen sink into it, usually [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 4th, 2008
Just now, someone I follow on Twitter posted a link to what looks like an interesting article in the Boston Globe’s online site boston.com. So, I click on the link and instead of seeing the story, like I used to, I now get this:
Sigh…. I thought we’d gotten past this foolishness of forcing readers to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 2nd, 2008
Some GM cars have a wireless communication system called OnStar, which lets you communicate with GM service people for roadside assistance, directions, vehicle diagnostics, unlocking doors and other driving and travel type of functions. I was just reading this article from 2004, that talks about all the wonderful things cars will be able to do [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 25th, 2008
There’s an old expression in golf, “Every once in a while, even a blind squirrel finds a nut.” It’s usually invoked when an otherwise inept duffer (like myself) makes an incredible golf shot worthy of a pro. This applies to photograpy, too, I think. Sometimes, without realizing it at the time, you just happen to [...]