Observations on the lack of art in technology today
Been using Macromedia products, a lot. Started out with Freehand (BM, Before Macromedia, version 3 to be precise). Kept going to 10, then decided to go whole hog and went to Studio MX. One of the things I liked was MM’s “two-machine” license. I could have it on desktop and latop, without muss or fuss. […]
It says here that Google is killing the economics of content, in the main because it makes it profitable to build a site with nothing buts ads. The disconnect for me is that the writer sounds as if that’s something new and different, something we haven’t had before, something that Google has recently enabled. Truth […]
I’ve been noticing a sharp upturn in comment spam including bizarre references to gmail servers, such as www2-2.gmail.com and I can’t figure out what’s up. The comments are archetypical spam comments, but the message, instead of containing links to products, contains several similar links to gmail servers. I generally still shoot on sight, but I’m […]
Since i throw rocks without hesitation, I should be equally quick to acknowledge progress. Drupal 4.7 includes a new module installation bit, which is a very big step forward from the previous version. It’s actually friendy, something I’ve not run across very often before. Since I’ve compared Drupal and Joomla before on this blog, it’s […]
I’ve been having intermittent email outages at a client site that I’ve been trying for months to diagnose. Finally managed to get my hands on enough information to do so, and I find the problem is spamcop. The client has a lot of field people, who have yahoo email accounts. The web hosting service the […]
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