9 October 2002

09Oct2002

The Option List from Hell

<p>Exhibit A, your honour. An options list from a website's registration form containing <em>341</em> different salutations, including &ldquo;Honourable Judge&rdquo;, &ldquo;Senator&rdquo;, &ldquo;Dpty. Commissioner&rdquo;, &ldquo;Kepala&rdquo; and &ldquo;YB Dato' Paduka Bijaya Di Raja&rdquo;, but shamefully missing &lsquo;Mademoiselle&rsquo;.</p>

09Oct2002

YKYBHTLW...

You know you've been hacking too long when somebody says &ldquo;Axis of evil&rdquo;, and you think &ldquo;Hey, <a href="http://xml.apache.org/axis/">SOAP</a> isn't that bad...&rdquo;

09Oct2002

The Joy of HTML

I just looked at my weblog homepage in Netscape 4.78 for Linux. If you get the chance, you should try it, it's really funky. It looks like William Burroughs cut my page up and pasted it together in random blocks.

09Oct2002

Worse is Evolvable?

Clay Shirky and Mark Pilgrim revisit the territory of Richard Gabriel's classic essay; <cite>The rise of &ldquo;Worse is Better&rdquo;</cite>