Facebook — IRC in fancier clothes

By IRC, I am referring to Internet Relay Chat. If you follow that link to Wikipedia, you’ll see that IRC has had some important milestones during the years of its existence, such as being used to report on the 1991 coup attempt in the Soviet Union.
But IRC has always been notorious as being a [...]

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Cartoons about social websites — so true, so true

I have active accounts on about a half-dozen different social websites, lapsed accounts on two or three, and there’s another six or ten out there that I’ve heard of and have no interest in joining anytime in the foreseeable future.
Even my “active” accounts are not really all that active.
And why is that?
Because most of the [...]

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Need to start using Firebug more

I downloaded and installed Firebug for Firefox the other day (I primarily use Flock as my browser, but Firefox is nice too) but hadn’t used Firebug much. After running across Kristarella’s tutorial on Firebug, I am going to start trying to use it more. Her tutorial was very informative and I think I’ll learn a [...]

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Web Standards

After a long hiatus from doing anything creative or constructive  on the web — besides infrequent comments on various blogs — I am going to start playing around with various web pages and code and layout again. And trying to write more stuff in general.
I have been following a number of sites that talk about [...]

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C|NET’s interview with Martin Illsey, Accenture Technology Labs’ director of research

c|net (or is it “C|NET”??) has posted a really interesting interview with Martin Illsey, who is the director of research for Accenture Technology Labs, which is Accenture’s R&D branch.
(Article by Tom Espiner, special to CNET News.com, Published: October 30, 2007, 1:28 PM PDT, site accessed 10/30/07.)
I’m not going to into a whole lot of detail [...]

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