in honor of the new
favicon support
in the
0.96 branch
of
mozilla
, i've gone and whipped together an icon. yes, i know the exclamation point is so 1999, but it was the best i could do on short notice.
it should work in
explorer
and
konqueror
. for bonus points, i should have fewer 404s in the referrer logs.
and check out that nifty tabbed interface! superfine.
ev births pyrads which follows metafilter's textad lead:
"pyRads™ is a service for purchasing, managing, and serving micro advertising on web sites. Micro advertising is different than most banners and other forms of advertising you see on the web in that: 1) It's quick, easy, and low-cost for advertisers (and usually more effective). 2) To the audience, it's unobtrusive and can actual add value to a site, rather than annoyance. 3) It's usually text, rather than graphics (because that's what people read)."while nobody is going to get rich of these type of ads, i think those crazy kids are onto something.
cool. the leonid flux estimator predicts that, if i'm able to stay awake until 4 a.m. on sunday morning, i will see a peak hourly count of about 3,500 meteors. i live in the far, far northwest reaches of the greater chicagoland area - downtown will see a paltry peak rate of 600 meteors per hour. so take that, you city dwellers.
there used to be a post here about favicon support in the 0.96 branch of mozilla . cleverly, i deleted the post several days after making it [don't ask] and now can't remember exactly how i worded things. you get the point though - just think favicon support.
NoCatAuth: Authentication for Wireless Networks provides some useful food for thought regarding security and authentication in community wireless networks:
"To provide responsible wireless access, we need to securely identify users when they connect, and then only allocate resources that the node owner is willing to contribute. The built-in security features of 802.11b are designed to create a private network full of trusted clients; they aren't well suited to managing public-access networks. Fortunately, with the proper application of open source software, a secure and easy-to-use security framework can be created."the article comes from an upcoming book from the upcoming oreilly tome, Building Wireless Community Networks :
"Building Wireless Community Networks offers a compelling case for building wireless networks on a local level: They are inexpensive, and they can be implemented and managed by the community using them, whether it's a school, a neighborhood, or a small business. This book also provides all the necessary information for planning a network, getting the necessary components, and understanding protocols that you need to design and implement your network."relatedly 802.11b Networking News links to several articles that underscore the potential for cell/wifi convergence , driven presumably by the desire of carriers and infrastructure providers to capitalize on wifi "hotspots" :
"Mobile operators should certainly be worried. The combination of no licence fees - because they operate in the unlicenced 2.4 ghz band - relatively cheap and easy installation, a wide and growing potential customer base and high-speed connectivity - offering data rates of up to 11 mbps to wireless-enabled laptops or handhelds within 50 metres of any access point - means that these wireless hotspots will spread ever faster across the world."nokia is listening .:
"Helsinki Finland-based Nokia stepped up their efforts to enter the home networking market with the announcement today of an agreement with KPN to provide them with Nokia Home Gateway products. These products are based on the IEEE 802.11b standard and enable data transfer at 11 Mbps."look for phones and gateways soon that facillitate hopping onto "hotspots" with the associated billing and service provisioning for carriers.
Subscribe now for rapid prototyping:
"One of the most difficult software design challenges is designing a system that supports a changing set of requirements. Developers often find themselves reengineering an API to meet the demand of evolving requirements. By providing a framework for a more flexible system, the Publisher-Subscriber pattern can help you overcome some problems associated with object dependencies."[ via langreiter]
the term "requirements engineering" always reminded me of an oxymoron in the same class as "strategic planning", but that doesn't stop the WebWord's Requirements Engineering Portal from being filled with linky goodness:
"WebWord's Requirements Engineering Portal is a collection of links about requirements engineering, requirements management, systems science, use-case scenarios, requirements engineering software, and methods and tools related to requirements engineering."
whoohoo!
ev
unwittingly expands my christmas list by pointing to a couple removeable storage options fit for a keyring - the
ibm 8mb memory key
and the slightly cooler
disk on key
device which comes in 8, 16 and 32 mb flavors [ it looks like 64 and 128 mb offerings are coming soon ].
and no, i have no idea what i'd do with the device when i had it, but that's really beside the point.
Building Perl projects with MakeMaker:
"If you've used UNIX or Linux for some period of time, you've probably written a few Perl programs to automate simple tasks. Each of these programs does something basic and simple that might otherwise take you 10 or 20 minutes to do by hand. In this article, Sean will show you how to convert just such a Perl program into a far more robust programming project, one that will be generic enough to be widely distributed across many disparate platforms."
just in time for summer - look snazzy and support the site at the same time by buying some snowdeal schwag!
“The stranger has been a fundamental touchstone of cultures at least since Abraham and Sarah invited weary road travelers into their tent only to find out that they were angels in disguise. The Odyssey, too, is a meditation on strangers and hospitality: Odysseus experiences different ways of being a stranger on his way home while the suitors abuse every rule of hospitality in his own house. It's easy to see why strangers are so important: a culture's attitude towards them expresses its understanding of its position in the world of social groups. In our culture, we're suspicious of strangers. They're a threat. They lurk in shadows. On the Web, however, strangers are the source of everything worthwhile. Strangers and their utterances are the stuff of the Web.”
the hyperlinked metaphysics of the web
ev / cam / rc3 / dave / dangerousmeta / boing boing / keeptrying / textism / anil / sylloge / caterina / haughey / genehack / megnut / kottke / kalsey / splorp / john robb / paracelsus / nick denton / eatonweb / /usr/bin/girl / commonme / torrez / overstated / C:\PIRILLO.EXE / gulker / mcgee / delacour / webcrumbs / dane carlson / soapbox / vielmetti /
doc / satn / joho / egr / rushkoff / scoble / kevin werbach / amy wohl / tim o'reilly / dan bricklin /
langreiter / glish / morelikethis / hack the planet / raelity bytes / aaronland / burningbird / decafbad / tesugen / netcrucible / skippingdotnet / aaron swartz / flangy / salad with steve / w3future / jy / a frog in the valley / kumo / diveintomark / voidstar / too much news / dan sheridan / lawrence's notebook / joel / scott andrew / brent ashley / eric freeman / dithered / youngpup / loudthinking / jon udell / ringnalda /
shifted librarian / libtech / handheldlib / jessamyn / researchbuzz /
802.11b / sifry / reiter / mostly harmless / dailywireless / 802.11 planet /
qmacro / stpeter / dizzyd / durand /
blogzilla / mike's blog / mpt / hyatt / asa / blake ross / chris nelson /
simon fell / sam ruby /
webvoice / saltire / websense / bblog / poelog / bizquick /
forwarding address:osx /
bekkers / burkhardt / pope / hugh /
zeldman / rosenfeld / peterme / xblog / soapbox / design weenie / antenna / blackbeltjones / cognitive architects / arts and farces / noisebetweenstations / eleganthack / brad lauster / brushstroke / webword / signals vs. noise / uxblog / iaslash / nooface / lucdesk /
dan gillmor / glennf / onlinejournalism / deborah branscum / jd lasica / paul andrews / ken layne / talking points /
metafilter / metatalk / alterslash / spinsanity / adequacy / plastic /
valid xhtml 1.0 ?
This site designed by
Eric C. Snowdeal III
.
© 2000-2002