What’s up with blogging, and why should you care? – TechUpdate – ZDNet
A sort of hodgepodge of details of what a blog is. Not a great summary, but perhaps useful for someone new to blogs.
Looking for things to read?
Posted by Daniel
on February 24, 2004
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The [Words]:http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/ archive has [H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine]:http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/W/WellsHerbertGeorge/prose/timemachine/index.html and [George Orwell’s 1984]:http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/prose/NineteenEightyFour/index.html , amongst other cool pieces of classic literature.
[Project Gutenberg]:http://promo.net/pg/index.html ‘s probably got way more, but hey, Words has Orwell.
Also check out [Twenty Great American Short Stories]:http://www.americanliterature.com/SS/SSINDX.HTML , because everything there’s quick enough to read over lunch or a coffee break.
Paul Graham on “moral fashion”
Posted by Daniel
on February 24, 2004
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[What You Can’t Say]:http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
This is a pretty nifty article that compares clothing fashion to moral fashion. Paul Graham is quite the writer. He’s also got cool stuff on programming (like on how LISP helps you [Beat the Averages]:http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html ), if you’re into that sort of thing.
> Excerpt:
Have you ever seen an old photo of yourself and been embarrassed at the way you looked? Did we actually dress like that? We did. And we had no idea how silly we looked. It’s the nature of fashion to be invisible, in the same way the movement of the earth is invisible to all of us riding on it.
> What scares me is that there are moral fashions too. They’re just as arbitrary, and just as invisible to most people. But they’re much more dangerous. Fashion is mistaken for good design; moral fashion is mistaken for good. Dressing oddly gets you laughed at. Violating moral fashions can get you fired, ostracized, imprisoned, or even killed.
Knock ’em dead
Posted by Daniel
on February 22, 2004
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Sometimes there are great moments in anime. 🙂
Passwords with inkblots
Posted by Daniel
on February 21, 2004
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Fascinating… [using inkblots to remember passwords]:http://research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx?id=417 . Since everyone sees different things in inkblots, then nobody would guess your password. Cool article from Microsoft Research.
> Excerpt:
“Good passwords are hard to remember. And easy to remember passwords are easy for other people to guess. What we wanted to do is give people a hint to help them remember a good password,” said Simon.
User interface design
Posted by Daniel
on February 20, 2004
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AskTog has a nifty article about user interface design :
[AskTog: A Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts]:http://mirror.lerfjhax.com/www.asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html
It’s got bits about menubars and how to make stuff easy to click on.
> Excerpt:
Microsoft Toolbars offer the user the option of displaying a label below each tool. Name at least one reason why labeled tools can be accessed faster. (Assume, for this, that the user knows the tool and does not need the label just simply to identify the tool.)
Customizing this blog
Posted by Daniel
on February 20, 2004
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I get the feeling I should play with the style/templates for this blogging thing.
[neil turner’s templates]:http://www.neilturner.me.uk/templates/ some guy’s templates. Neil certainly has some cool features.
I’ve never really given much thought to layout. But, in line with my own expectations for viewing a site, I’ll have to choose a design that uses space efficiently. But first, I should probably survey a bunch of places and see what features I want on the page.
test
Posted by Daniel
on February 20, 2004
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Yipee! I got a blog now! (cheers quietly..)
Destroy your productivity with these sites
Posted by Daniel
on February 20, 2004
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[linkdump]:http://www.linkdump.be” — check random people’s recent links
[cockeyed]:http://www.cockeyed.com — one wonders what might happen if he put all his energy into something more “useful”