December 2006 Archives

Dilbert's Cost Benefit Analysis December 31, 2006
Dilbert’s Cost Benefit Analysis — I once had this exact same conversation....

Digg Scares Me (403 Go Away!) December 30, 2006
Digg Scares Me (403 Go Away!) — "I’m not writing a 'story' for Digg Corporation...

RawSugar dead months ago December 30, 2006
The hot company news of the day is the demise of Raw Sugar. Only they really crashed two months ago.

The best of 2006 December 24, 2006
I wrote a lot of drivel in 2006. Here’s the things that are less crappy than the rest.

JSON plate December 23, 2006
A license plate for Dave.

Prime Ribe with Cabernet Jus December 22, 2006
Prime Ribe with Cabernet Jus — My favorite prime rib recipe. Add some mashed potatoes,...

Outsourced Parenting December 22, 2006
Outsourced Parenting — Surely, though, we thought, no one actually does delegate every single responsibility...

Solving feed overload December 22, 2006
Feed reading often leads to information overload. What techniques might improve this?

Free FON router December 22, 2006
To increase their US customer base, FON is allowing existing users to give their friends free routers.

Poison Powerbook December 21, 2006
Poison Powerbook — An alteration for an aluminum Powerbook changes the color of the Apple...

Spirited Away 0.5 December 21, 2006
Spirited Away 0.5 — if an application isn’t active for a certain fixed time, Spirited...

Seek & Destroy Music Duplicates December 21, 2006
Seek & Destroy Music Duplicates — Java app to find duplicated music files and remove...

Five Myths and Six Facts About Blog Advertising December 21, 2006
Five Myths and Six Facts About Blog Advertising — Why aren’t more advertisers and bloggers...

More JSON stuff December 20, 2006
More JSON not XML merchandise. Stickers, buttons, and shirts.

JSON Shirt December 20, 2006
A t-shirt for Dave.

Why JSON isn’t just for JavaScript December 20, 2006
Why JSON isn’t just for JavaScript — Simon Willison explains how to use JSON for...

RSS-JSON (Or, RSS 3.0) December 20, 2006
Dave Winer’s Scripting News, written in JSON.

Making Compact Forms More Accessible December 20, 2006
Making Compact Forms More Accessible — Ultra-compact forms with great accessibility thanks to a bit...

Sample Contracts and Business Forms December 20, 2006
Sample Contracts and Business Forms — Thousands of real-life sample contracts. Get actual legal agreements...

phpMyID December 20, 2006
phpMyID — Single-user OpenID server in PHP...

Yugma December 20, 2006
Yugma — Free conferencing tool in Java. OSX and Windows....

phpMyID December 19, 2006
phpMyID — Single-user OpenID server in PHP...

Spammers love me December 17, 2006
A comment spammer shows how much he cares.

Sun Monitors for Startups December 15, 2006
Now startups can get discount monitors from Sun.

Laser cat December 14, 2006
Thanks to Google’s patent search, I can now quickly find my favorite patent of all...

Webcore Labs... harboring spammers December 13, 2006
A web host who harbors spammers—as long as the host’s resources aren’t abused.

Testers needed for Feed Crier Jabber December 12, 2006
Over at the Feed Crier blog we have a call out for people who want...

Investment by locale December 7, 2006
Where is it easiest for a startup to get outside investment?

Off Target December 6, 2006
More funniness from everyone’s favorite big-box retailer.

Mixers and Speakers December 6, 2006
Suggestions for running an effective mixer from Jeff Jarvis.

Content Republication December 4, 2006
Several sites are using my feed to republish everything I say onto their site. What can be done?

ThinkFree Office December 1, 2006
Despite my early problems, ThinkFree’s office suite looks like a winner.

count(*) in InnoDB December 1, 2006
Conventional wisdom about the performance of this query is misleading.

ThinkFree -- making it hard to sign up December 1, 2006
Signing up for ThinkFree is a hassle.