i almost missed "a confirmation alert, fisked" the first time around. as someone once said - it's funny because it's true:
"The key thing to remember, as always, is that people hate alerts. Alerts are the telemarketers of the graphical user interface. They interrupt what you're doing, they demand you deal with them before you do anything else, and they generally make you feel bad. And the worst variety is the confirmation alert, which insists you answer a question before you can do anything else.
Naturally, answering a question is rather difficult if you haven't read the question in the first place. "
"Editor's note--X11 for Mac OS X offers a complete X Window System for running X11-based applications on your Mac. This implementation of X11 includes a window server, libraries, and basic utilities such as xterm. In this article, Dan Benjamin shows you how to install and use the latest beta offered by Apple."
as a reader commented you can do away with all the xhost foo and just type, 'ssh -X username@machinename.com'. this is great for me because my aging kickaround linux box is about to go headless because the monitor is on its very, very, very last leg.
well, alrighty then. U.S., Russian experts quietly testing `dirty bombs' in growing effort to combat terror threat . [ via dangerousmeta ]
congratulations to the fine folks at techdirt on getting nominated for best tech blog by forbes.
i'm and the ben and mena show! and there's wireless! so, i'm blogging naturally.
they're going over some basics about movabletype and showing some case studies about using it for building community sites, such as the sxsw blog. i think there's about 30 people, which seems like a nice turnout given the time and day, and i see a few familiar faces from the chicago blogging scene. of course, akma is live blogging the event and has much better notes than myself.
matt has a digital camera, so maybe i'll post a photo or two. done! thanks, for the photo, matt.
i'm in chicago, which means if the blogging gods are with me, i'll be able to see the trotts speak at seabury tommorrow. sounds like it'll be a good time. i trust there will be a good turnout from chicago's blogging community. it should be fun.
while, i'm not jumping on the google is eeeeeeevil bandwagon, i do think that diversity and competition are good things. i don't know if i'd go as far as the title implies, but "In Practice AllTheWeb Best!!" does show that the perceived dominance of google in returning relevant results is mistaken:
"A bench test study of Google and contender AllTheWeb/FAST reveals some weaknesses in Google's offering. From a user's perspective, all the Web/FAST is, in practice, a sounder search engine than Google. However, Google delivers fresher content with a greater percentage of pages being present in its database from individual sites."
[ via webword ]
martin fowler: writing with xml:
"For quite a while now, I've been doing most of my writing using XML - even to the point of writing my last book in XML. As I've mentioned this to people they've asked me a number of questions about my experiences, and that's been enough to prompt this little article on the whole thing."
[ via langreiter ]
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“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.”
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