It seems that your only purpose in life... By Charles Miller on 22 November 2002
Mark Pilgrim has upgraded his site to valid XHTML 1.1 , and in the process provides several examples of why that's really quite a bad idea. I shall stick with my grossly invalid approximation of HTML4 .
In addition, he starts the push to the second stage of reducing weblog bandwidth costs, mod_gzip. I considered mentioning this back during the Get thing, and it was suggested to me several times that I should have, but one axiom I've learned is: “Make one suggestion at a time, or you'll confuse people.”
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21 November 2002
Weblogs are fun, and interesting, and a very neat way of exchanging timely information in a decentralised environment. But they have some significant weaknesses that make them unsuitable for the task of providing a repository of academic research.
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25 November 2002
"You've got to understand that most of the input into Gartner is from briefings arranged by the marketing departments of companies that are paying them to listen to their briefings. Basically, Garter sits at the apex of the hype food-chain; they consume pure hype and produce little sh&t-pellets of hype that is[sic] as dense as neutronium." - Marcus J. Ranum, on firewall-wizards.