Chipping the web – the loneliest road
January 29th, 2007 5:50:43 pm pst by 
Sterling Camden
The die is cast: Julius Caesar supposedly uttered those words upon crossing the Rubicon river with his army, an act which effectively declared civil war, in 49 BC.
Microsoft proves once again that usability comes first — right after license verification.
Vaspers the Grate provides 24 tips for new bloggers. Don’t expect to understand all of these right away, folks. I’m sure I missed some nuances of number 15, for example.
If you made it this far, you’re not an alcoholic, unless I am. Thanks, Paul.
WordPress 2.1 reduces your feeds to partial text?!?!?! That’s a joke I do not find humorous. Fortunately, there’s already a plugin available to fix it.
My Thoughts Hurt! “Hapless thoughts of an online-addict”, and user of my tag cloud widget.
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I’ve not had a problem with partial text, I’m using FeedBurner as well. I installed the plugin, anyways, just in case.
[...] But apparently, there’s an issue with WordPress 2.1, and I just upgraded the other day. So if you are seeing partial feeds, it’s not a feature but a bug! Let me know, I’ll get it fixed. [...]
Doug, thanks for checking in on this. Your feeds have appeared to be fine, and so have assaf’s. But apparently both Paul Raven and the author of the plugin experienced the problem. Maybe it’s only after a certain length of content.
The next version of Windows will require a blood sample to install.
I already gave Vista a urine sample.
I gave Windows 3.1 a sample from the other hole.
I thought it had plenty of that all on its own.
It did. That’s why I mistook it for a toilet
It definitely was not a good choice for the “paperless office”.
I hear Vista at least comes with a bidet.
[...] The loneliest road: A nickname for US Highway 50, which extends across the United States from Sacramento, CA to Ocean City, MD. Actually, nowadays it’s interrupted in several places by more modern highways. I’ve driven many segments, including Sacramento to Salina, UT. Parts of Nevada were so lonesome you could drive for nearly 100 miles and not even see a house. [...]
Oh yeah, it’s called the UAC.
Does the enhanced cleanliness outweigh the um, user experience?
Frankly, I don’t want to know.
Me neither. Unfortunately, I will be forced to upgrade (downgrade?) at least one box here, because the products I work on have to run there.
I hear ya. Kind of a shame — Microsoft has most of us in a vice.
Luckily for me, it’ll be a while before I need to worry about that. I only just yesterday got IE7 running on a Windows system for testing websites, and that’s likely as close as I’ll need to get to Vista for a while because of the sort of work I do. I guess that’s why you get paid the big bucks.
A bidet for behind and a vice for the frontal organs.