Monthly Archives: January 2005

I’d like to recommend City Comforts, by David Sucher. While its emphasis is the built environment of cities, the patterns presented apply to developments on a village scale as well.

[Sent this morning to the planputnam mailing list.] Aside from the oddity that Patterson will benefit while the project has the most impact on Kent, I think a mercantile development on that site has some promise. Unfortunately, I don’t think … Continue reading →

Jim McGee points out Martin Geddes‘s pointing out a paper from 2003 by Andrew Lippman and David Reed on “Viral Communications.” Mr. Geddes says, It means the end game is already pre-determined. Centralised telecom won’t exist in its current form. … Continue reading →

Stephen Dulaney points out PrimaryGames, a game site for children, and observes They seem to be selling a range of banner ads, kind of cool to see a site that is so much fun being able to get revenue from … Continue reading →

I think we can judge what attracts idiots by the contents of spam. However, I would appreciate it if the lowlife would cast their idiot nets elsewhere.

The rumor mill is working furiously. Isn’t leaky information fun? Dan Gillmor worries about the impact on competition of an SBC purchase of AT&T. At this stage in the game, there’s little evidence for engaging in paranoid conspiracy theories. Does … Continue reading →

I noticed interesting behavior while observing the effect of a memory cache tweak on Firefox. First, the tweak. Firefox caches data on disk, but it also caches data in memory. The memory cache has a leak; it doesn’t deallocate in … Continue reading →

Jeff Pulver has released his latest creation, Bellster. (Does *ster branding still have legs?) Anyhoo, this is a peer gateway service for interconnecting the public switched telephone network with the Internet. Members exchange their local calls for local calls elsewhere, … Continue reading →

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Last night I began watching the first episode of Town Haul. This should be interesting. It’s not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride … Continue reading →

Anybody can search. I search for things all the time, but, as my wife can tell you, I do not often find them. Searching, without finding, can turn up all sorts of interesting trinkets, but is not successful if you … Continue reading →

What use could Google have for the dark fiber they’re rumored to be buying? The (London) Times speculates that it has something to do with VoIP. Maybe. I’m more inclined to think that they just want cheap fiber as a … Continue reading →

I was just editing my feed configuration over at FeedBurner, and noticed this witticism. Earn some Flooz real money with your feed. My former employer helped build Flooz. Unfortunately, we got paid in Flooz.

Google suggests adding a rel=”nofollow” attribute to links which you don’t want Google to follow. They suggest this in order to reduce the PageRank incentive for comment spam. If PageRank incentives were all there were to the problem, this might … Continue reading →

Glenn Fleishman, over at his WiFi Networking News site, points to a lament that the MTA has no wireless, should have wireless, and must get wireless as soon as humanly possible. If the MTA has no interest in following the … Continue reading →

Someone tried to blow up our library yesterday.

Bill and I were just talking about workstations on the way back from Lunch yesterday. Coincidence? Or Synchronicity? I know why I was thinking about them, but why were you?

Curbed alerts us to plans by Commerce Bank to put a suburban building in an urban locale. Those of y’all who live in Park Slope, Brooklyn, might want to object. Or, if you’ve got the cash, buy their air rights.

Last week Apple introduced the Mac Mini, and already there’s an enthusiast’s site and speculation on using the Mini as a portable home theater. My own thoughts on the box have tended towards its use in the living room, not … Continue reading →

I have a simple answer for why Java is more popular on the server than on the desktop, and it has nothing to do with performance: Which version of what?