January 27, 2006
Wiki, a Subversive Technology
Except it is, and it does, because our poker standings page on the extranet represents, in a microcosm, every little bit of information that a company's employees think is worth writing down, if only there were a convenient place to do so. This is one half of the corporate wiki's raison d'etre, and is the reason that so many of our customers tell us how quickly "Just put it in Confluence" and its converse "Look for it in Confluence" have become almost cliché in their organisation.read... (950 words. Posted to confluence, nerd, rambling aimlessly, wiki at 06:50 PM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 6)
A Tale of Two Googles
Google image search results for the term "Tiananmen", performed in two different countries.read... (14 words. Posted to nerd at 04:24 PM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 3)
January 26, 2006
Quotes of the Day
I'm not sure "made me walk more than any other car I've used." would be complimentary.read... (273 words. Posted to nerd at 08:29 PM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 1)
January 18, 2006
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
The awesome power of online consumer feedback strikes again!read... (87 words. Posted to personal at 11:18 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 12)
Ha Ha Only Serious
"Because written English survived quite happily for centuries without needing punctuation to delineate humour. I can almost understand why it might be necessary in back-and-forth conversational one-liners, but I don't see why we have to start corrupting honest prose just because some readers are getting too used to being spoon-fed joke-markers to work it out for themselves."read... (337 words. Posted to personal at 12:08 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 11)
January 17, 2006
Build One to Throw Away?
The only novel feature I could see on Flickr when I first signed up was the 'shoebox' of images that you could upload to the site and share with other members, or paste into conversations. The way things turned out, it looks like I wasn't the only user who thought that way.read... (600 words. Posted to nerd at 08:26 PM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 0)
Random Java Trivia
When does the following code not throw a NullPointerException? MyClass obj = null; obj.doSomething();read... (182 words. Posted to java, nerd at 12:07 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 2)
January 16, 2006
Should We Talk About the Weather?
It's not raining tonight. Rain is something that starts in the sky then falls down until it hits the earth. The weather I can see outside my window is just humidity reaching its natural conclusion and becoming too heavy to stay where it is. It's not raining tonight; the mist has just discovered there's only a little way left to fall.read... (61 words. Posted to personal at 12:08 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 4)
January 13, 2006
Full of (Cold) Air
I wonder, since online shopping really started taking off, how much money and effort has been expended shipping plastic bladders full of air around the world?read... (72 words. Posted to personal at 02:40 PM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 4)
January 12, 2006
The Sum Total of Human Experience
Follow the storage performance/size/capacity/price trendline out 10 or 15 years, and we get to the hard-drive that John Gilmore's been describing: the size of a sugar-cube, costing $1-2, powered off of the occassional hard shake...read... (152 words. Posted to nerd at 05:18 PM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 6)
January 11, 2006
Online Video, Three Stories
Streaming video sucks.read... (402 words. Posted to nerd at 09:00 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 9)
January 09, 2006
Preaching to the Perverted
Tom Bridge explains the MacWorld San Francisco keynote to non-believers.read... (258 words. Posted to nerd at 08:25 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 3)
January 06, 2006
This is Our City in Summer
The slogan for the Festival of Sydney this year is 'This is Our City in Summer', which can lead to a certain level of signage-irony when it's pissing down with rain.read... (0 words. Posted to personal at 08:31 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 0)
January 05, 2006
Hyperlinks 'r' us
In lieu of having to come up with something interesting to say here, how about some interesting stuff that's recently shown up on the Atlassian Developer Blog.read... (159 words. Posted to nerd at 03:02 PM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 1)
January 01, 2006
Happy New Year
The fireworks over the Sydney Harbour Bridge were, as usual, fantastic.read... (13 words. Posted to personal at 12:43 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 0)