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October 2001
28
Oct
2001
I was expecting to show up, find a whole shelf of "Stir-fry stuff" books, and pick the one that looked most user-friendly. Such was not going to happen. The closest I came was the half-inch thick "Womans Weekly Asian Cookbook", which I wasn't going to buy because it would have been confirming stereotyped gender-roles. Then I saw it. Zen, the Art of Modern Eastern Cooking. →
26
Oct
2001
The friends list is really a confustion of three features. Firstly it is a subscription list. Secondly, it is an access-control list. Finally, it's a friends list on which you list names of people you like. Anyone can tell that while these three lists overlap significantly, they're not by any stretch of the imagination the same thing. →
24
Oct
2001
The trick to surviving eight hours full of unique human beings is to recognise that people really aren't unique at all. There's a limited number of personality types when it comes to shopping, a very limited number of applicable situations, and given a week you can come up with a script that covers all these situations. →
15
Oct
2001
Remember a year or two ago, when the web was a little younger, and it was the height of embarrassment to have a website that was generated for you by some tool, rather than written by yourself in emacs? Hasn't that just flipped around completely in the last six months. It's like at some point, a switch was flipped, and everyone started thinking "What the hell are we doing this for?" →
