Monthly Archives: August 2005

There are two buyers running up prices in this market: the couple buying your house, and their mortgage company. Before approving the mortgage, the lender will appraise the property and determine whether it is properly priced. You can buy whatever … Continue reading →

Mitch Wagner says, One thing that could get us back to the movies is, I think, the return of the movie palace. Make the theater into an architectural achievement. Make movie-going a treat. Serve dinner in the theater itself (decent … Continue reading →

David Sucher asks, How are you personally dealing with the housing bubble? In fits and starts. Over the past three years we have planned an addition to our home, then stopped when the construction prices were higher than building a … Continue reading →

Yesterday, like the rest of the Known Universe, I installed Google Talk. I already have a Google Mail account, and, being a fan of Jabber, wanted to see how well they’ve done with the implementation. If you can connect — … Continue reading →

Rebecca Blood notes that the RIAA now blames CD burning for their lackluster sales. Maybe they should sing along with Beck. I’m a loser, baby, so why don’t you kill me.

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There is power in names. You probably know that Oracle is a company, and that they sell databases. (Well, strictly speaking, they sell a database management system and some applications built on it, not databases, but we’ll forget for the … Continue reading →

I’ve been thinking off-and-on, mostly off, about how to configure individual home directories on a WebDAV server. What’s necessary for individual WebDAV DocumentRoots is nothing more than simply rewriting / if the user is authenticated. There remain some usability issues. … Continue reading →

A reprint from The Washington Post in today’s business section reaffirms what Web browsers already know: we’re bored. “We know that 55 percent of all U.S. employees are not engaged at work. They are basically in a holding pattern. They … Continue reading →

Microsoft: an expletive Continue reading →

The saying goes, that nobody ever got fired for buying IBM (or whomever happens to be the Big Kahuna this week). Maybe they should have been.

Microsoft Outlook is a sorry excuse for a mailer. And Windows is an impenetrable mess of spaghetti. In short: Microsoft sucks.

The Associated Press ran a story this morning on a gentleman from Texas who’s travelling to every Starbucks. The story helpfully contained a link to this gentleman’s web site, Starbucks Everywhere. So when everybody woke up and went online at … Continue reading →

Via Tim Bray via Sam Ruby, the Copyright Office asks whether a public entity should even consider writing vendor-specific markup. At this point in the process of developing the Copyright Office’s system for online preregistration, it is not entirely clear … Continue reading →

The Little Sister makes us laugh. Daddy, carry me. I can’t walk; my leg is bored.

Consumer Reports’s ISP comparison smackdown Continue reading →

The New York Times reports that there may be some architectural issues with a proposed Apple store on lower Fifth Avenue. Plunked amid a phalanx of ornate buildings on Fifth Avenue – structures with classic Greek columns, cast-iron arches, filigreed … Continue reading →

On June 3rd, Viacom, the owner of WCBS 101.1 FM in New York City, bought an iPod Shuffle, changed that station’s format, and fired all the disc jockeys. What was formerly New York’s favorite oldies station is now JACK-FM. The … Continue reading →