Tuesday, February 04, 2003

Winners and losers. Steve Bowbrick writes that the best blogs are written with conversation in mind: "This is where weblogs can approach the quality and texture of real conversations. Great bloggers leave lots of gaps and readers rush to fill them, producing insight in the synthesis of the original words and the reader's response. The whole really is greater then the sum of the parts." [Guardian Unlimited] I read Steve's article not once, but twice, and I still have no idea what he is talking about. What he writes just doesn't seem to make sense: apparently you have to write disconnected pieces of nonsense to increase your readership? Is that why Ursula Lotze is getting more readers than I, because her weblog is not a weblog at all? Is my writing simply too "gorgeous, perfectly-phrased and knowledgeable" to be interesting? I almost sat down to write an email to Steve asking what the heck he meant, when I suddenly realised he had won. He was right, and he had won. Even as I am writing this, I realise he has won. Steve is right; I am a loser. [The Aardvark Speaks] 6:26:55 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Radio Background Have you ever accidentally dropped an image or an HTML file over the Radio application window? It happens to me once in a while and the result is kind of interesting. Radio actually displays the image, or page, as its background. Fully navigable. A little web browser inside Radio. It is kind of cool until it gets annoying. It only goes away if you shut down Radio and restart. [On The Mark] 4:37:38 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Adventures in C#: Using NUnit Almost all the code in this book will be developed with associated tests in NUnit. I expect that you'll see that working this way serves well to keep the problems small, keep the code working, and easy to improve. Once in a while, we'll be working without tests, either because we can't figure out how to write a test, or because we get lazy. If that happens, I bet there will be bugs in the code. * [Archipelago] 12:12:44 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

I have heard about Netflix before, my fiancee has used it in the past. However the booksfree.com site is new to me and I am looking forward to trying this service out. Netflix, booksfree, and more. One of my favorite things about being back in the US is Nexflix.com. It's a small thing but it makes renting movies so easy. I just have to be careful that I don't go into compusive movie watching mode. When I used it a year ago the closest distribution center was in California. Now there is one in Tacoma and the movies get delivered very fast. Matt wrote about netflix like services for games. Now buzz machine informs there is a service for book, booksfree.com. Check 'em out. [So many islands, so little time] 12:06:40 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

SALMON BAKED IN SEA SALT:. A friend of mine just raved about the following recipe that I passed along to her ("I FINALLY made that *amazing* salt-encased salmon . . . . It was fantastic!"), so I thought I'd post it in case some people are interested. I've made it myself several times, and really like it -- the salmon ends up extremely tender and moist. [The Volokh Conspiracy] 10:36:43 AM    trackback []     Articulate []