Dexter Cartoon for September 3, 2004 - "The Salesman"
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Dexter Cartoon for August 27, 2004
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PS: The reference to "channel surfing" makes this one seem
really dated. Keep in mind, though, that it was drawn in
1990, before web surfing even existed.
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Dexter Cartoon for August 20, 2004
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PS: My thanks to Blambot.com for
the free Digital
Strip font used in this comic.
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07/30/2004 03:18 PMI had some nice feedback following last
week's "Dexter" cartoon, so I've decided to make my old cartoons a
regular Friday feature. I don't have many cartoons to choose from,
but I should be able to keep this going for a few months. I actually
drew "Dexter" five days a week for a couple of years so you'd think
I'd have hundreds to pick from, but I have just a handful scanned in,
many of which are too dated to reprint (they were all drawn between
1989 and 1991).
The ones I have scanned are my "safe" cartoons which I sent to
syndicates. See, the majority of my Dexter comics talked about race,
religion, politics and sex, and they used language that would make
Garfield and Beetle Bailey run screaming into the hills. I knew I'd
never get into the newspapers with that stuff, so I created a number
of strips which tackled less sensitive subjects, hoping to use them to
sneak into the papers. I figured once I was syndicated I could push
the boundaries. Sounded like a great plan to me, but it hit a rather
large roadblock: no syndicate was interested in distributing my
work.
I spent a year or two slumming around trying to get my comics
published, but had little luck. Then in 1995 I discovered the Web and
realized I could do my own publishing - cheap. So, off I went to
build my first Web site. At that time the tools for building sites
were really bad, so I decided to build my own. On my Dexter
site a few months later, I announced my new HTML editor - which, of
course, was HomeSite 1.0. The end of the story is that HomeSite
turned out be far more successful than my comics, and I followed
HomeSite into a career as a computer programmer.
Anyway...that's the background story. Now here's this week's
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Dexter Cartoon for Sept 17, 2004
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Dexter Cartoon for August 13, 2004
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06/05/2005 11:08 PMThis week's Dexter is a big one, so rather than include the entire
strip here, I've linked to it from the image below:
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03/14/2005 06:24 PMOkay, this week's Dexter is a little crude, but keep in mind that I
created it while I was in college...
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PS: This week's Dexter is dated by the reference to "Thelma and
Louise," which was in theaters when I created the strip.
Dexter Cartoon for April 1, 2005
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Dexter Cartoon for April 8, 2005: "Sue
Yourself"
Dexter Cartoon for April 8, 2005: "Sue
Yourself"
04/08/2005 11:55 AM
This week's
"Dexter" is a six-part series I created in the strip's early days,
when the title character always wore sunglasses. I was going to post
these as separate cartoons over the next six weeks, but for the sake
of continuity I'm posting all six parts at the same time.
Click here to
read all six strips.
"Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: September 05, 2004 - September
11, 2004 Archives"
"Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: September 05, 2004 - September
11, 2004 Archives"
09/07/2004 03:14 AMTalking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
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11, 2004 Archives
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11, 2004 Archives
09/08/2004 07:11 AMJimmy Carter to Zell Miller .. righteous
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09/24/2004 05:37 PMJunkyard Blog has one idea .. Tubby Reifensthal returns .. must-read
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September 26, 2004
September 26, 2004
09/26/2004 01:05 PM
Doug Kaye interviewed me for IT Conversations; you can listen to
the audio
interview. Dave Walker also interviewed me for the Sydney Morning
Herald and Melbourne's The Age; an extended verison of that article is
on his site Shorewalker.com<
/a>. Finally, Mary Jo Foley came by the Fog Creek office to interview
me for Microsoft Watch,
which is a subscription-only newsletter.
September 06, 2004
September 06, 2004
09/06/2004 10:08 PM
My Latest Article
Software in the 1980s, when usability was "invented," was all about
computer-human interaction. A lot of software still is. But the
Internet brings us a new kind of software: software that's about
human-human interaction. When you're writing software that mediates
between people, after you get the usability right, you have to get the
social interface right. And the social interface is more
important. The best UI in the world won't save software with an
awkward social interface. It
's Not Just Usability
Workspace Quality
Someone posted a
nice summary of links to information about the quality of
workspace provided to software developers. “Perhaps it can
be useful to other software developers in a position to influence
managers or may someday be in a position to make decisions about
workspace design themselves.”
September 14, 2004
September 14, 2004
09/14/2004 12:47 PM
We've been quietly making some improvements to the beta discussion
group software.
Today we rolled out Brett's new full-text search feature. It relies
on the database engine to provide full-text search, and we're running
Microsoft SQL Server, which has rather poor full-text search
capabilities: for example, it requires a manual process to rebuild the
index, which we schedule for every 15 minutes, so it won't find
anything posted in the last few minutes.
I also added an RSS feed. Originally I wanted to provide full text
of all topics and replies in the last three days so that you could use
an RSS reader to read the discussion group. Unfortunately that would
have resulted in a huge download, and since RSS readers bang
on the site every hour or three, our bandwidth usage would have been
absurd. So I had to settle for full text of the original topic but not
of replies.
And finally we got Summer Intern Ben's excellent Bayesian filtering code
working... due to a couple of configuration problems it wasn't running
right. The idea is to delete comme
nt spam before anyone sees it. It's hard to tell if the filter
works yet because it needs more training, but so far it's doing pretty
well. If you think comment spam is not a big problem, you haven't
moderated a discussion group lately... this is the number one priority
for spammers these days, since email filters are starting to work
pretty well and spamming a lot of discussion groups is perceived as a
good way to trick Google into giving a site prominent placement.
We admit to three strategies to prevent comment spam:
- Bayesian filtering which can be trained to remove comment spam
instantly
- Not allowing new comments on old posts, so that comment spam can't
be hidden in posts which nobody but Google visits any more
- Using a META tag to ask search engines not to follow URLs from
discussion topics. Although this technique prevents comment spam from
working it doesn't prevent it from happening because
spammers don't seem to particularly care if a given spam works or
not.
By "we admit to" I imply that there are other things we do which we
don't talk about too much because revealing them would make it that
much easier for spammers to work around them, thus reducing the cost
of spamming, thus making it more economically feasible.
One side affect of the Bayesian filter is that if it finds a
suspicious topic, rather than letting it through, it will flag it for
a human moderator. The moderator can then allow it to be posted (which
trains the filter) or leave it unshown. The effect of this is that
rarely, new posts won't appear until a human approves them. This
should happen less and less as the filter learns more.
September 11, 2004
September 11, 2004
09/12/2004 08:39 AM
In Memoriam
September 03, 2004
September 03, 2004
09/03/2004 09:55 AM
I'm happy to announce that my friend, teacher, and competitor Eric
Sink has agreed to host the new Business of Software
forum.
Eric has been in the software industry from time immemorial. He built one
of the first web browsers,
Spyglass and founded the AbiWord project to make an open
source word processor. His latest company is SourceGear, a highly successful
Inc
500 software company in Champaign, Illinois which makes great
source control management software. He writes a column on the business
of software for MSDN and has
his own weblog where he
has been extremely generous with his knowledge of software business. I
couldn't have a better host.
September 02, 2004
September 02, 2004
09/02/2004 01:42 PM
Try out the new
discussion group, now in beta!
A few brief comments:
- Yes, there are bugs! Many bugs! Please report them using the link
provided.
- It looks kind of plain right now, I know. And I haven't
implemented a search feature yet, which is planned.
- It works a lot like the old discussion group.
- There's a new archive section ("Older Topics").
- You can provide a URL with your name when you post. I'm hoping
that people who have their own web sites will do so, and that this
will make posters a little less anonymous. (Note that these URLs will
not be followed by search engines like Google, so they cannot be
abused to "steal" PageRank.)
Most of the changes are really on the back end, in the
adminitrator's interface and in the abuse- and spam-prevention
features. I'm hoping that if all works well, you'll see a lot less
spam. And it's now much easier for me to make a new discussion group,
something which used to take an hour of work, so I may set up several
new groups in the future (if you have a good idea for a topic please
post it.)
E-Gov Bulletin - September 2004
E-Gov Bulletin - September 2004
09/20/2004 08:58 AMMondaq Sep 20 2004 1:26PM GMT
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