A long rant on Virgin Media customer service and the challenges of cancelling.
Ryan Tomayko has an interesting entry on HTTP Abuse and more specifically about the lack of proper tool support and knowledge of how to make full use of HTTP.
Damn good entry; thanks for the link.
In Web 2.0? Try 3.0, Dan Gillmor asks:
If the web is becoming an operating system in its own right, can anyone monopolise it the way Microsoft did on personal computers? As long as the webâs basic functions remain ...
I have been waiting for Firefox to support SVG for ages now.
It's one of the largest missing pieces to turn Firefox with XUL into full fledged portable applications platform. There are other gaps too, such as 3D support ...
Ian Forrester over at Cubicgarden.com has written about data ownership and it's relationship to the del.icio.us vs de.lirio.us debate.
While I must confess to be amongst the heathens who actually haven't used either yet (though I've had a quick peek), I have strong feelings about data ownership, ...
Jon Udell wrote an entry called The architecture of intermediation on how he as a user would like a way of adding features to a web application.
Simon Willison followed up with this article on using Greasemonkey as a ...
After yesterday's entry on old tech, I suddenly for no reason today searched for "cgi specification" to see if the original page was still there. It is: The Common Gateway Interface
It's been unchanged for ...
Yesterday I got a phishing scam in my mailbox, purporting to be from Ebay, and requesting me to confirm my cardnumber. Apart from the obvious scam alert that was immediately ringing in my ears on reading "confirm" and "card number", I've never even used Ebay (yes, I'm one of those ...
It's strange when you work at a company and find out cool new stuff like this from a news site first, but that's the way it gets in a large company... Anyway, I'm was thrilled to read this ZDNet article.
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