The Desktop Fishbowl
Charles blogs all the random nerd stuff he can find.

Friday, 25 January 2002

It looks like Doc Searls likes his Powerbook + OSX for the same reason I do. Luckily for me, I didn't have the same subsequent visit from the fates. 12:08:51 PM

Updated: Now the link works. Oops. My God. I just found a slashdot comment that was worth reading: The Revolution Will Not Be Webcast (it's funny. It's a filk. Read it.) 11:22:44 AM

"Can't post this text because it's an exact duplicate of the previous post" Radio gets 10 points for usability. Of course, that leaves it on a total of negative sixteen thousand points, but at least it's got a few good features. 10:35:20 AM

You'd think that having nobody read your weblog would be depressing. I'm actually finding it a very liberating experience, since if nobody's reading what you post, you're more likely to just post whatever the hell you want. 10:33:40 AM

An ancient link I thought I'd lost: the Web Economy Bullshit Generator. 10:30:58 AM

Quote of the day from an Ars Digita article on databases. Anyone intelligent can quickly write a highly reliable program in Smalltalk or Common Lisp. But the world embraced C++, a language in which almost nobody has ever managed to write a reliable program. 10:18:50 AM