Its now five in the afternoon, and its been raining without a break all day. Stayed indoors and worked on a few things. Tidied up the C# code that runs the photo album pages, and added a few tweaks. Surfed a bit. Hate days like this. #
Too Much Screen Time Can Make Computer Users Sick (Reuters). “Mental symptoms such as lethargy, anxiety and “reluctance to go to work,” as well as sleep-related problems including insomnia and fatigue, were most common among workers who spent more than 5 hours a day glued to their computer screen.” Quite. #
FuckedWeblog.com: “If Web Logging (or “‘blogging”) is the New Journalism then scavenging must be the New Cuisine. This format for writing on the web, which some are calling the “Ground Zero of the personal Webcasting revolution”, is drowning in noise because the armchair reporters?for whom the blogging tools were invented?have no idea what to use their ‘blogs for or what direction they should be going in. A representative ‘blog is confused, disorganized and maddeningly tiring to read. Much like a personal web site from 1996…” #
This was slashdotted for a while, but its an interesting read: “When good interfaces go crufty”. Basically, a slow accretion of system limitations and bad design decisions; and UI technology that makes it harder than it should be to change the interface once its implemented. #
An apparent copy of the Public Interest Immunity Certificate presented by the government in the Shayler spy trial. Reading the foreign press over the net is easy, so just how they think they can prevent Shayler’s allegations (whether or not they’re true) from emerging is beyond me. Lost of juicy stuff here and here (and here too, if you believe that kind of thing). The grisly remains of Shayler’s web site are here. #
Memories of Jon Postel. I Remember IANA. #
Switch to the dark side.