Tuesday, June 04, 2002

More recovered files, from more long-buried floppy disks. This was something I worked pretty passionately on during the summer of 1992, and then put away indefinitely during the fall. It's basically a working copy of my leukemia story, but only just The Beginning. It sort of fizzles out near the end, without getting much further than the intitial diagnosis. Plenty more to tell. 8:17:42 PM

Jakob Nielsen is at it again, telling us how mediocre internet shopping sites are. I'm actually getting a little tired of the same old song and dance. E-tailers suck, most homepages suck, the web sucks for senior citizens, and it also sucks for kids. Flash used to suck, but it won't anymore. Sigh. Must be tough being right all the time. Makes me appreciate {USEITorLOSEIT} that much more (especially The Many Moods of Jakob, and Jakob - man of action). 1:03:20 PM

I started to explore my neighborhood a little bit. According to Dave, the harvester "visits all the sites you're subscribed to, looking for sites that point to their subscription list, and then harvests those, and recurses up to three levels deep (this is configurable)." Problem is that when you follow the link from the neighborhood page to view my subscriptions, you get Jon Udell's, not mine. If you look at Jon's neighborhood, it's surprisingly similar to mine. Or, more accurately, mine is more like his. Nearly identical. Which, of course, makes sense, if the harvester used Jon's subscription list to build my neighborhood. I wonder if this has happened to anybody else? Update: with help from Lawrence Lee, this problem has been corrected. Ahem. User error. 12:08:30 PM

Yuk. I guess you have to take the bad with the good. But it's still crappy weather, now matter how you slice it. One of the few things I enjoy about rain is the Cult song. 9:27:30 AM

Mark introduces a web service, leveraging Google's API to find your "neighborhood." Keeping the ball rolling. 9:17:01 AM