Archive for May, 2006

A bit fed up with Web 2.0

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

Recently I've been feeling a bit fed up with the whole Web 2.0 thing. I develop software, including web applications, for a living, so of course I appreciate the "new" possibilities that have emerged from XMLHttpRequest etc, but sometimes it just seems... a bit much. There's also the Ruby on ...

Comment spam

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

Wow! When I published my "Hay-fever" post yesterday, I immediately got 5 comment spam. I'm not the world's most active blogger - and probably not that interesting to the world - so this surprised me a bit. Anyway, I got me an API key, activated Akismet and today Akismet have ...

Hay-fever

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

It's that time of year again. Hay-fever time. When I was younger, I only used prescription drugs, but as I grew older, I found that the non-prescription ones worked just as well. This year I've been trying out a new pill, but I can't tell the difference really. I'm "lucky" ...