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I've been beating my head against this all day, but I think I've finally figured it out. I gather that... (More...)

1 January 2010, 6:07 PM | Comments (1)

Yesterday, I stopped by the FBI website to find out how to file a Freedom Of Information Act request. My... (More...)

9 October 2009, 10:05 AM | Comments (4)

Most of the time, I try my best to ignore online advertising. But once in a while, an ad catches... (More...)

7 October 2009, 12:48 PM | Comments (3)

It turns out that SVG, a web standard for displaying scalable vector graphics, has been quietly growing in popularity and... (More...)

14 September 2009, 9:29 PM | Comments (2)

Do you post to Twitter but not to Facebook? Do you want your tweets to appear in your Facebook account,... (More...)

13 September 2009, 11:53 AM | Comments (0)

Took a break from magazine stuff to wander over to the East Bay for a writing-in-a-café afternoon. Wrote 1600+ words... (More...)

7 June 2009, 6:58 PM | Comments (0)

Some interesting new time-related features from Google today: Google Wake Up Kit--have trouble waking up? This new Google Calendar feature... (More...)

1 April 2008, 11:29 AM | Comments (2)

I've thus far avoided posting much video online, partly 'cause I don't really know how (even though I helped document... (More...)

29 March 2008, 12:39 AM | Comments (0)

Just saw a blog entry about heavy use of Twitter at the SXSWi conference this year and last. Sounds like... (More...)

11 March 2008, 9:35 PM | Comments (8)

A bunch of my friends have been using LibraryThing to create an online catalog of their books, share that catalog... (More...)

14 September 2007, 11:01 PM | Comments (3)

Some thoughts on form, style, and content, in various kinds of writing. (More...)

19 February 2007, 10:32 PM | Comments (2)

Here's a recipe for becoming known worldwide as an expert on any topic: Write a column in 1997 that mentions... (More...)

20 January 2007, 7:44 PM | Comments (3)

I forget whether I mentioned here that the main page of the TSA website crashes Safari. If you're using Safari... (More...)

14 November 2006, 12:16 AM | Comments (3)

I'm spending much of this week attending the PHP conference in San José this week. (Partly 'cause Zend is releasing... (More...)

31 October 2006, 5:12 PM | Comments (3)

A couple months ago, I mentioned that Google is now providing a photo-hosting service, Picasa Web Albums. At the time,... (More...)

3 August 2006, 1:07 AM | Comments (1)

A friend recently pointed me to a webcomic called xkcd. (In the same email, she asked how I was doing,... (More...)

21 July 2006, 10:51 PM | Comments (5)

Some things I did this weekend, including several that I had not planned to do, in no particular order: Spent... (More...)

26 June 2006, 12:48 AM | Comments (0)

I finally recently got around to adding a list-of-links section in a sidebar on my journal page. The idea is... (More...)

19 June 2006, 10:45 PM | Comments (0)

I've been meaning to mention for a couple weeks that I seem to have found a good solution, for now... (More...)

18 June 2006, 9:34 AM | Comments (1)

I'm very very sleepy, so I'm not going to write up the lovely evening I had tonight, not even the... (More...)

14 June 2006, 2:08 AM | Comments (0)

Google Video Player is now available (free) for Macintosh. Which also means that Mac users can now purchase copy-protected videos... (More...)

7 June 2006, 8:50 AM | Comments (0)

I spent most of yesterday playing the traditional post-WisCon game of trying to get home. I would love to have... (More...)

30 May 2006, 8:13 AM | Comments (8)

For those who've been wondering what I've been devoting most of my waking hours to lately: The Google Calendar data... (More...)

20 April 2006, 12:03 AM | Comments (2)

Another nifty new service has just launched: Google Calendar (Beta, of course). You can read more about it on the... (More...)

13 April 2006, 2:06 AM | Comments (1)

Meanwhile, in perhaps-related news, Slashdot has discovered Cute Overload. And Slashdot itself has decided on an all-pink look, to appeal... (More...)

1 April 2006, 11:14 AM | Comments (2)

Two items just in: First, Google to advertise on the moon, a vnunet.com article by one Arif Pollo, published today.... (More...)

1 April 2006, 10:44 AM | Comments (2)

If you'd like to submit a story to Strange Horizons as an RTF file (rather than converting it to plain... (More...)

4 February 2006, 2:32 PM | Comments (5)

People are always talking about the amazing predictive abilities of science fiction. But what about fantasy? Yes, yes, Arthur C.... (More...)

20 December 2005, 10:19 AM | Comments (2)

This will eventually be the Movable Type version of Jed's journal. However, it's not quite ready yet. So for now,... (More...)

19 September 2005, 1:10 AM | Comments (4)

Three more or less unrelated items of varying levels of interactivity: Thomas Dietz juggling video #10. Even the people who... (More...)

22 December 2004, 9:45 PM | Comments (6)

I've been meaning to write about this for ages. I've been putting it off because I wanted to provide thorough... (More...)

9 December 2004, 8:58 PM | Comments (10)

It takes me back to the old days, it does. Microsoft is sponsoring a new distributed online game called Terrarium,... (More...)

8 February 2002, 6:33 PM