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Full Decent Camera Life

Full Decent Camera Life 12/15/2003 10:32 PM
2.4 a'commin

Full Decent Camera Life 2.4b

Full Decent Camera Life 2.4b 12/20/2003 12:18 PM
A photo gallery system.

torrentz, finally a decent bittorent
site

torrentz, finally a decent bittorent
site 01/22/2004 03:20 AM
taking the "de" out of "decentralized"!

I am looking for a decent broadband
service provider in Juhu. Please
suggest. Thank you everyone

I am looking for a decent broadband
service provider in Juhu. Please
suggest. Thank you everyone 09/10/2004 08:32 PM
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FujiFilm FinePix S5500 Zoom Review
(Verdict: Decent)

FujiFilm FinePix S5500 Zoom Review
(Verdict: Decent) 03/19/2005 02:45 AM

< img src="http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/s5500_zoom.jpg" alt="s5500_zoom.jpg image" width="145" height="150" class="right"/>PhotographyBlog has posted their review of the FujiFilm FinePix S5500 Zoom, and they have given it a rating of "doesn't blow too hard." Though the reviewer is a fan of the increased ISO speed options and enhancements to some other areas of the camera, he doesn't seem to like the "Zoom" part of the S5500 Zoom. The 10x optical zoom may sound like a fancy number, but he goes on to say that it doesn't exactly take the cake when it comes to focusing quickly.

F ujifilm FinePix S5500 Review [PhotographyBlog]

The Everyman Photo Contest - 2004
Amatuer Contest Rules

The Everyman Photo Contest - 2004
Amatuer Contest Rules 08/01/2004 03:33 AM
The Everyman Photo Contest - 2004 Amatuer Contest Rules

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"The Everyman Photo Contest - 2004
Amatuer Contest Rules"

"The Everyman Photo Contest - 2004
Amatuer Contest Rules" 08/02/2004 03:12 PM

PHP Scalability Critique

PHP Scalability Critique 07/17/2004 04:11 PM

Experiences of Using PHP in Large Websites: This is a well-written, well-researched, but ultimately damning indictment of PHP's use in "large Web sites."

The conclusion arrived at is that, in some circumstances at least, PHP's tendency to create more problems than it solves makes it an inappropriate choice. However, we also recognise that there are some situations in which PHP is to be used.

I agree with a lot of what's written here, but they're not roadblocks that have ever really hindered me. If you abstract your code well, and you're not working on a site with a lot of other people (I usually work alone), most of these problems are non-events.

Yes, function naming is goofy. Yes, there are no namespaces. Yes, the whole magic quotes concept is a pain. But I still write better stuff faster with PHP than with any other langauge.

They talk about templating and code separation early on, and the perfectly describe what has become my de facto templating method:

Divide every PHP page up into two parts: the former performs database queries and does whatever else is needed to calculate the content for the page, before storing the calculated content into a series of variables which — and this is crucial — contain no markup. Then the latter part of the page can simply embed variable values into HTML markup, using loops where appropriate to traverse potentially-complex data structures containing the actual content.

I actually have two files — the actual code, then a ".tpl" file that's included at the bottom of the code. That way, two vastly different sets of code can use the same template. I know this isn't perfect, and Joe never hesitates to tell me that I should be using Smarty instead, but it works well for me without the (1) need to learn another language syntax, and (2) the additional overhead required for template processing.

Thank to Jo nathon Hollin for this link.

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How to Run a Design Critique

How to Run a Design Critique 01/23/2003 05:55 AM

A critique of port knocking

A critique of port knocking 08/10/2004 03:25 AM
Suppose you want to be able to retrieve files from your Linux system remotely. The "standard" method of running the SSH server on port 22 is notoriously inadequate. OpenSSH, which is the SSH server on the majority of Linux installations, suffers from regular exploits of buffer overflow and other vulnerabilities, and you neither have the time to keep up with the patches nor want to make the effort -- you'd rather put up with not being able to access your files. This is where port knocking might seem to help -- but don't count on it.

XSLT debate and critique

XSLT debate and critique 06/05/2002 07:50 AM
XSLT was designed as a language for transforming XML documents into other documents (perhaps also XML). In essence, XSLT "transformations" are made of templates that match portions of input documents and correspondingly emit portions of output documents. The XSLT engine applies the appropriate templates (usually recursively) to input documents to yield output documents. Thus, XSLT seems perfect for our task. We can simply match the text portions of our input documents, perform our substitutions, and emit the results. But, alas, XSLT suffers from fundamental weaknesses that make it exceedingly difficult for many common tasks, and our text-conversion problem is one such task. Ken Holman, a noted teacher of XSLT has a good response:

Don't regard writing a stylesheet as writing a program, regard it as supplying to the processor a collection of templates, or "examples of the result tree", that the processor is going to use to build the result of the transformation.

Yes, it [XSLT] happens to be Turing Complete, so if you need to do programming things along the way (which, I claim, is *not* the norm in XSLT stylesheets), they are available to be used at the cost of shoehorning the activity into markup constructs. I agree it isn't a pretty programming language ... because it's primary purpose *isn't* programming, so that's okay!

They also say "Give a man a plough and he can farm the land, give a man a noose and he can ...". A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. - John

"zeldman.abc"

critique of mozilla marketing

critique of mozilla marketing 07/29/2004 08:45 PM
how's this? firefox: safer, faster internet browsing and search for free

Critique of Ken Brown's response

Critique of Ken Brown's response 06/06/2004 09:29 AM
I hereby present a critique to K5 of Ken Brown's response to critics of his book, Samizdat. The following quote gives a good introduction to the sort of response it is: Linux is a leprosy; and is having a deleterious effect on the U.S. IT industry because it is steadily depreciating the value of the software industry sector. Software is also embedded in hardware, chips, printers and even consumer electronics. Should embedded software become 'free' too, it would be natural to conclude the value of hardware will spiral downward as well. Does this remind anyone of the stance that Microsoft took that the GPL is "viral"? Note: in the interests of attribution (which Ken Brown likes to talk about a lot), I cited all articles linked to on June 5th (Sydney, Australia for those across international date lines). I am unable to prevent any changes made to this website.

Critique Magazine's On Writing III

Critique Magazine's On Writing III 09/15/2004 03:39 AM
Critique Magazine's On Writing III - Each year, Critique Magazine's staff compiles essays by and interviews with writers, teachers, and translators of merit for inclusion in the special anniversary edition "On Writing".

Basically, a shitload of authors provide thoughts on, ahem, writing. {Both sites are worth a look, imo.}

Design critique of Jakob Nielsen

Design critique of Jakob Nielsen 05/24/2004 02:56 AM
Jakob Nielsen is a legendary usability crank who writes great little columns called "AlertBoxes" wherein he runs down his best practices for one or another element of usability (I always forget to read these because I can't find any RSS or Atom for Jakob's site and it updates too infrequently to put it in my regular Moz tab-group bookmark; nevertheless, some of Nielsen's pieces, like the Microcontent thing from 1998 have been very influential in my blogging style)

Last week's AlertBox was about link-style, and it's pretty good and sensible. But, like all of the AlertBoxen, it is ugly as hell.

Enter "Design Eye for the Usability Guy." Five designers, who have clearly been scorched by Nielsen's legendary rants about the primacy of usability over design, take on Nielsen's AlertBox house-style in a kind of overblown, gushy tone, and undertake to remodel Jakob's image so that his site is both usable and beautiful. It's funny, subversive and in the words of the Cos, "you may learn seomthing before it's done. Hey! Hey! Hey!"

Last time I checked it wasn't illegal to use illustrations to spice up your web site. Now, before we go wild let us remember that Nielsen's not exactly the nothing-but-prada-shoes type of guy. So, I settled with a clean, icon-like style that will reinforce each guideline visually. The colours used are basic: red for links, blue for hover and shades of gray and black for other text. Again, let's try to stick with a style that somehow matches his current branding.

To translate the general concept of links into something simple I've chosen to use an underlined letter "a," applied to an assortment of situations that exemplify each guideline. The font used is Georgia, which happens to work nicely and is very much ubiquitous.

Link (Thanks, Danny!)

Forgotten Force Critique Of The Week

Forgotten Force Critique Of The Week 10/28/2003 11:09 PM
This week's Forgotten Force Custom Critique Of The Week is a 3-¾" Darth Bandon by Ricky UK. This character is from the Knights of the Old Republic video game. Don't forget to share your thoughts on this custom in our forums.

excellent critique of NY Bloggers event

excellent critique of NY Bloggers event 05/04/2004 03:12 PM
i'm hoping we can get a less homogenous audience the next time around, too

Scorching critique of some arguments for
copyright

Scorching critique of some arguments for
copyright 05/25/2004 10:22 AM
Mark Lemley, a UC Berkeley law prof, has just published a paper on copyright called "Ex Ante Versus Ex Post Justifications for Intellectual Property," that's a good, fast read. Lemley says that in copyright's early days, the justificaiton for the auhtor's monopoly was to give authors the incentive to crete new works, but that today, we have the "ex ante" arguments that copyright also gives authors the incentive to exploit their creations -- to make more of them once they are created -- and to "steward" them by ensuring that only good, quality derivative works enter the market.

Without saying much about the idea that copyright can be a good incentive to create, Lemley tears these other arguments for copyright to shreds, in a highly entertaining fashion:

The argument that a single company is better positioned than the market to make efficient use of an idea should strike us as jarringly counterintuitive in a market economy. Our normal supposition is that the invisible hand of the market will work by permitting different companies to compete with each other. It is competition, not the skill or incentives of any given firm, that drives the market to efficiency. Nothing about the fact that a work was once subject to copyright or patent protection should change our intuition here. It is hard to imagine Senators, lobbyists, and scholars arguing with a straight face that the government should grant one company the perpetual right to control the sale of all paper clips in the country, on the theory that otherwise no one will have an incentive to make and distribute paper clips.24 We know from long experience that companies will make and distribute paper clips if they can sell them for more than it costs to supply them. The market for paper clips functions just fine without this type of government intervention. We can also predict with some confidence that if we did grant one company the exclusive right to make paper clips, the likely result would be an increase in the price and a decrease in the supply of paper clips. Yet supporters of the CTEA confidently predict exactly the opposite in the case of copyrighted works from the 1920s.

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Davids Medienkritik: Germany's Critique
of the U.S.: One-Way Street Only

Davids Medienkritik: Germany's Critique
of the U.S.: One-Way Street Only 09/26/2004 11:07 PM
Germany Pulls Out Of Military Expo Because Ralph Peters Is Scheduled To Be A Featured Speaker & They're Angry About A Column He Wrote (Lol) .. Davids Medienkritik

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Joi Ito's Davos critique of Japan's
"democracy"

Joi Ito's Davos critique of Japan's
"democracy" 03/15/2003 11:03 AM
Here's a 2:40 clip of Joi Ito's talk about the deficiencies in Japan's Democracy, as presented at this year's hyper-leet Davos forum. 4MB QuickTime Link Discuss (via Joi Ito's Web)

Book's Critique of Psychology Ignites a
Torrent of Criticism

Book's Critique of Psychology Ignites a
Torrent of Criticism 04/12/2004 12:54 AM
Critics of "Opening Skinner's Box" claim that the book contains invented quotations and question the author's methods in her experiments.

this nice critique of conservative
chicken-little-ism about "attacks on the
first amendment"

this nice critique of conservative
chicken-little-ism about "attacks on the
first amendment" 01/06/2004 05:35 AM

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In Harshest Critique Yet, Kerry Attacks
Bush Over War in Iraq

In Harshest Critique Yet, Kerry Attacks
Bush Over War in Iraq 09/20/2004 11:12 PM
Senator John Kerry said he would not have invaded Iraq when President Bush did, and the president answered with a sharp rebuke.

Bloggers groan, celebrate and critique
even the poster font

Bloggers groan, celebrate and critique
even the poster font 07/06/2004 11:47 AM

danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner
:: Responding to the feminist critique

danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner
:: Responding to the feminist critique 06/03/2004 03:38 AM
Responding To The Feminist Critique On The Blogosphere .. blog women love! .. responds .. topic

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Experts Critique SERVE Internet Voting
System

Experts Critique SERVE Internet Voting
System 01/22/2004 05:05 AM

Washington Offers Guarded Critique of
Putin's Plans

Washington Offers Guarded Critique of
Putin's Plans 09/14/2004 04:30 PM
The secretary of state said today that terror should not become an excuse to move away from democratic reforms.

"Hillary's Convenient Critique - Is her
anti-Bush Iraq sniping pri..."

"Hillary's Convenient Critique - Is her
anti-Bush Iraq sniping pri..." 12/06/2003 03:50 AM

" In Sweeping Critique, Kerry Condemns
Bush for Failing to Back Aristide "

" In Sweeping Critique, Kerry Condemns
Bush for Failing to Back Aristide " 03/08/2004 11:17 PM

"WHEN, OH, WHEN, WILL WE GET A DECENT
PRESS CORPS? Today's New York Times
contains an article by Kate Zernike with
this passage: Like the helmeted Michael
Dukakis peeking out of the tank, or the
first George Bush bewildered at the
grocery scanner, the..."

"WHEN, OH, WHEN, WILL WE GET A DECENT
PRESS CORPS? Today's New York Times
contains an article by Kate Zernike with
this passage: Like the helmeted Michael
Dukakis peeking out of the tank, or the
first George Bush bewildered at the
grocery scanner, the..." 09/07/2004 03:14 AM

Third Party & Independents Critique the
Message, Not the Messenger: Rumor: A
Kerry Affair & Push Polling

Third Party & Independents Critique the
Message, Not the Messenger: Rumor: A
Kerry Affair & Push Polling 02/13/2004 12:42 AM
watchblog broke the kerry affair a week ago .. reading about Kerry's problems .. BEAT DRUDGE .. WatchBlog

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E.J. Dionne: Have You No Sense of
Decency, Sir? Of Course Not, This is the
Bush Cartel. Being Decent Gets You in
TROUBLE with the Bush Cartel, Whose
Natural Home is the Gutter. 4/27

E.J. Dionne: Have You No Sense of
Decency, Sir? Of Course Not, This is the
Bush Cartel. Being Decent Gets You in
TROUBLE with the Bush Cartel, Whose
Natural Home is the Gutter. 4/27 04/28/2004 05:51 AM
Tempest

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Academic Community Supports Plant-Made
Pharmaceuticals in CaliforniaScientists
Critique Misleading Claims in Advocacy
Group Report

Academic Community Supports Plant-Made
Pharmaceuticals in CaliforniaScientists
Critique Misleading Claims in Advocacy
Group Report 08/11/2004 02:32 AM
Drawing upon the expertise of their community of more than 120 academics, researchers, and other life sciences professionals, an online coalition of academics (http://www.PlantPharma.org) have refuted a report that claims biotechnology-improved rice being grown to help produce new life-saving therapeutic drugs may pose a risk to human or environmental health. [PRWEB Aug 11, 2004]

another SEO contest

another SEO contest 09/20/2004 09:04 PM
super ugly, but the prizes are cash.

SEO contest FAQ

SEO contest FAQ 06/04/2004 11:41 PM
good backgrounder on what's up with my latest post

SEO Contest

SEO Contest 06/04/2004 01:50 PM

SEO Challenge - nigritude ultramarine: A search engine optimization site is running a contest to see who can get the number one position on Google in 30 days.

The SEO Challenge will have you vying for the number one ranking on a specific search term. The term, currently with no Google results, will be announced May 7th, the day the competition commences.

The term is "nigritude ultramarine" and here's the Google search for it. Winners get an iPod and a flat-panel monitor.

With any luck, the mere mention of the term in this post will cause me to win. (But you have to be a Search Guild member — too bad.)

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i won the SEO contest

i won the SEO contest 07/07/2004 11:01 AM
remember, bloggers, use your pagerank for good, not evil

New PHP Contest and Evolt on PHP

New PHP Contest and Evolt on PHP 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

Fusedspace contest

Fusedspace contest 01/27/2004 06:51 AM

An interesting contest has just opened for entries, called Fusedspace. "An international design competition on innovative applications for new technology in the public domain" is how they describe themselves but keep in mind the term "public domain" in this case is more specific to public spaces. The contest is set to give away over 17 thousand Euros in prize money for the best proposals that meld public spaces, technology, art, and community. Entry deadline is April 30th.

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