Feed: The Web

2007-04-06

MySpace and Facebook

Published 2007-04-06 at 22:11:29Z under biographical, homepage, web

I've had a MySpace page for a while now, and I've even commented on it. Off in the periphery I kept hearing of this Facebook thing, and when a co-worker mentioned it to me last week, I figured I'd go ahead and check it out.

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2007-02-14

Firefox date handling in Page Info

Published 2007-02-14 at 01:31:19Z under homepage, web

Today I was researching an HTTP caching problem and I discovered what I thought was a bug. When viewing the Page Info for an HTTP resource in Firefox, there is a "Modified" and "Expires" date that should reflect the modification date of the resource and when the resource should expire from the browser's cache.

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2006-12-16

I don't like MySpace

Published 2006-12-16 at 22:42:50Z under homepage, web

MySpace is making an absolute killing in ad revenue and is worth billions of dollars. But despite all of that, it still looks like somebody's pet web project run out of their garage. It's running on autopilot just when it has the most opportunity to do some really cool things.

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2006-10-24

TeleCam

Posted 2006-10-24 at 00:23:06Z under hardware, web

A description of a telerobotic (web accessible) camera mount I used to use with my webcam.

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2006-10-19

New site!

Published 2006-10-19 at 03:02:58Z under homepage, site, web

The new site is finally up. A lot of the (boring, annoyingly banal and personal) content was scrapped. Over time, I'll re-post some of it, but for now, the site is going to be a bit sparse. Please poke around and let me know if there are things that aren't working correctly. There will certainly be some problems here and there.

(For spam harvesters and poorly behaved spiders: poisoned addresses)