Archive for August, 2004

All I Want From RSS is Notification

Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

I don’t want RSS to be used to strip a site’s design away from it’s content, in effect homogenizing every site’s mark on the world.
I don’t want RSS to be used to consolidate every site I read into one insanely long scrolling page.
All I want from RSS is notification. I already [...]

Two New Taiwan Galleries

Monday, August 30th, 2004

Two new galleries from my time in Taiwan are now up.

Up Tiger Mountain in Taipei
A Day Trip to Danshui, Taiwan

Mikro Man: 150 Micron Steel Toys

Sunday, August 29th, 2004

Mikro Man is a tiny cut piece of 150 micron stainless steel that comes completely flat, and you very carefully fold it out into a little person in a little world. In short, it’s very cool and not for those with shaky hands. Here’s a picture of Mikro Man Jungle.

Mikro Man on Mars [...]

iPod + HP is a Big Deal

Saturday, August 28th, 2004

Michael Simon over at Spymac wrote a post titled iPod + HP = No big deal. I disagree for some fairly simple reasons.
The article’s disappointment seems to lie in the fact that the HP iPod offers no improvements at all to Apple’s already popular iPod. The only difference to the unit that I [...]

WordPress Needs an Integrated Design Gallery

Tuesday, August 24th, 2004

I have a proposal, a rough one, that I would like to share with the WordPress community in the hopes that it will do the following:

solve the on-going debate about the default WordPress template
help grow a development and design community around WordPress
act as a revenue source to bring some much deserved funding to the WordPress [...]

Is Google working on it’s own Linux?

Thursday, August 19th, 2004

Would you be surprised if they were? I’m not going to go seriously in-depth here. I simply want to throw out the idea.
Google, with the brains they have in stock now and the cash they’re about to have to back up whatever venture they feel worthy of their time, could invest in their [...]

The Case Against the Archive Calendar

Tuesday, August 17th, 2004

I have a simple request: stop using the WordPress calendar on your site. (Other blog software is included here.) At first glance, it looks like a worthwhile piece to keep around, but in truth it’s worth is extremely limited. Let’s take a look at what it does do and then decide for [...]

Boing Boing Reader Survey
Interesting, but a Little Flawed

Monday, August 16th, 2004

Boing Boing, a personal favorite of many (myself included), recently did a reader survey. It’s a very interesting look at what sort of audience passes through boing boing from day to day. There is a slight problem though with how they processed the data. The numbers don’t add up as they should.
Question [...]

Interview with a Linked Stranger:
David Lanham

Monday, August 16th, 2004

David Lanham is a talented artist and iconographer.
I don’t know him at all, but that’s what I’ve learned from his website and I link to him as a result. Doing so allows me to annoy him with questions via email.
Q: How did you come to realize you wanted to be an artist?
David: [...]

New Taiwan Gallery Up

Friday, August 13th, 2004

I have put up a gallery of nighttime Taipei images for your enjoyment. Taipei at Night Photo Gallery