May 2004

  • Watch What You Say

    A recent article mentioned that Tamyra Gray, fourth-place finisher in the inaugural American Idol season, thinks that you have to be really careful what you say and do (on TV, presumably). Here's what I don't get. Ms. Gray mentions that when talking about La Toya London, who said…

  • Advertising Explained

    I admit it. Advertising rarely works on me. I'm much more likely to get excited about seeing a 160GB hard drive for $100, listed in plain text in some obscure computer catalog, than I am to be impressed by the fact that some athelete gets paid to say…

  • Mozilla Extensions

    Recently I completed my first extension for Mozilla. It was a good experience. Though not particularly well documented, the extensibility of Mozilla is excellent. I thought I'd share a few tips on the process. I had to dig for most of this, so some of my conclusions may…

  • Forensic Video

    First, some disclaimers: While forensic is probably accurate in at least one sense, I'm not an examiner of any sort or by any means. All observations are simply casual observations, nothing more. My deepest sympathy goes out to the family of this – and any other – person…

  • Bloglines Toolkit 0.9.0

    Today I am releasing a new version of the Bloglines Toolkit for Mozilla. This version was created after receiving some great input from those who downloaded the initial release….

  • Extending Mozilla

    After nearly three months, I'm still using Mozilla's Firefox as my default browser. It's just too good not to do so. Since I recently switched hosts, I decided to take a better look at my stats. It seems that somewhere around 5% of you agree with my decision…

  • Moving Movable Type

    It turns out that it was surprisingly easy to move from one host to another. I'd love to think it's simply my own brilliance, but let's be honest here. Much of the work was easy because I had a copy of the data on my own PC. It…