• Yahoo's Interactive Billboard

    Posted on March 25, 2004

    Textually.com reports on a new interactive billboard installed by Yahoo! to promote their reworked auto site. The full article is at AdWeek, but it does little to answer my main question. The sign looks like a pretty cool idea. It’ll certainly attract some attention, and it’s novel enough that people... [Read More]

  • Programming Books with Full Text Online

    Posted on March 25, 2004

    I ran across two computer programming books with their full text available online: Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days and Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. I’ve only skimmed through each of them very briefly, but I personally am going to start on the teach yourself Scheme book. While I... [Read More]

  • Technorati Claimage

    Posted on March 24, 2004

    So I got my new Technorati Profile kicking, and I’m feeling pretty spiffy. But I notice that when I upload a picture it’s all smushed and mangled, and that I can’t remove the image so I just have to put up one of Ed instead, and that their javascript inclusion... [Read More]

  • Update Complete

    Posted on March 23, 2004

    And here you have it, the updated Bitsplitter Blog. The minimalist view is still the default, but now featuring such coolness as valid XHTML, valid CSS, and a valid RSS2 feed. And this time instead of destroying the normal setup, I left the desktop version available as well. So those... [Read More]

  • Test Posting From Vagablog

    Posted on March 23, 2004

    Just trying out Vagablog with my spankin new WordPress 1.0.2 install. Looks like it still expects the category as a number … I don’t like that. But in general the upgrade was smooth as silk. Go WordPress!!

  • New Version of WordPress

    Posted on March 23, 2004

    I just installed the 1.0.2 release of WordPress (kick ass open source weblog software). I need to go through and revamp the pages so that I have my minimalist PDA friendly layout working again. Everything should be back to normal again pretty soon.

  • Businesses Trying New Approaches

    Posted on March 23, 2004

    Novell has announced a very strong move recently, as reported in eWeek and The Register. Novell has decided to take their flagship product and rearrange it so that it runs on top of the Linux kernel: [Read More]

  • Public Authoring and Geolocation

    Posted on March 22, 2004

    MobileCommunityDesign has a post about the Urban Tapestries project. The report linked is interesting, they seem to give the honest feedback from what users said. Not too surprizingly many users said they would not use the system on their own yet. This is something that’s to be expected with the... [Read More]

  • Solutions not Acronyms

    Posted on March 22, 2004

    A post from The Feature indicates that the mobile market might be waking up to presenting better value propositions to users. The signs mentioned in the article are great, and I’m happy to hear about it. But I would personally like to see many of the crappy mobile service commercials... [Read More]

  • Open Source Desktop Debate

    Posted on March 21, 2004

    There’s an interesting debate going on within the GNOME and Mono communities. The main thread is a debate between Havoc Pennington and Miguel de Icaza. Lots of other people have contributed to the conversation, but here’s a list of some of the main posts (I may have missed some messages... [Read More]