joeldg - navigating the surface

I remember working on old computers and thinking that by 2000 we would all have amazing computers that could do so much and by 2005 we would have have computers built into our eyeglasses, houses, and everything around us.

I remember working on old computers and thinking that by 2000 we would all have amazing computers that could do so much and by 2005 we would have have computers built into our eyeglasses, houses, and everything around us. It is true that cars have done a lot recently, but desktop computers still suck. We still use mice which were invented in 1963 to move around, 43 years, we still rely on keyboards (which are fine) and we use basic windowing systems to navigate data within our computer. What happened to those systems in Johnny Mnemonic, minority report and Paycheck with all the interfaces there? Are we doomed to be stuck in 2d computer mentality forever? It was said that virtual reality would be viable once computers were faster, well, they ARE faster.

A few years ago, I wrote a windows application that could take apart a file, split it into defined chunk sizes, y-encode it, and upload it to “free” web hosting sites with various names and even concealed the filedata inside of HTML.

A few years ago, I wrote a windows application that could take apart a file, split it into defined chunk sizes, y-encode it, and upload it to “free” web hosting sites with various names and even concealed the filedata inside of HTML. It would upload the data into multiple places so that the file would survive a freehost “cleaning”. It would then create a file that could be “encoded” with a password which you could pass around to your friends or post anywhere and if people used the same program and loaded the “map” file they would download the various bits, uncloak them and then rebuild the file on your local box.. The idea was a killer, but it had a few issues, one the free hosts would catch on fast, freehosts would also be harmed by this idea as people would be uploading multiple copies of ISO`s all over the net.. BUT, it did solve the port blocking problem with some other apps and “was” technically valid html.. I created and tested this app, even wrote a “mass account generator” to go along with it, which was never finished before I decided to abandon the project after speaking with a company lawyer.

Mashups are pretty cool, of course they are all over and a lot are seemingly thrown together.

Mashups are pretty cool, of course they are all over and a lot are seemingly thrown together.

There are some sites that catalouge all the hacks they find. There are some good resources on all things google. Some New York city real estate maps that look like Sim City other speciality maps of New York (non google). weather is covered, history is just starting to be covered. People are using them with geocoding to do guestbooks, traffic stats, and visitor indexes (too many links there) and Yahoo just jumped in the fray, with Microsoft having previously done their version (which of course had no api or anything useful that people could do with terraserver)

The bane of my existence..
I hate having to code to get something to work in I.E.

The bane of my existence..
I hate having to code to get something to work in I.E.

You can get a site working perfect in Firefox, which follows all current standards perfect, with doctypes and all, and then open it up in IE and you always have to make some IE specific *hack* to get it to work.

Why do people continue to use the steaming pile when there are better alternatives which won`t infect your computer, spam you, and slow down your computer out there. Firefox people! and it is actually updated so you can see the web the way it is supposed to look.

Every developer I know right now is facing the same issue.. It is the IE frustration, the IE headache..

The Joel on Software guy Joel Spolsky wrote a piece about why he won`t use the term web2.0 which I found interesting for a few reasons..

The Joel on Software guy Joel Spolsky wrote a piece about why he won`t use the term web2.0 which I found interesting for a few reasons..

The term web2.0 is actually not the exact definition of using major revision numbers, because technically we would be on maybe web 1.84565 which I get..

However, the “2.0″ in the web2.0 is really in the way we “think” about development for the web. It has been a while since we have had to drastically alter the way we thought about development of web-based apps. When starting from scratch there are entire new systems in effect for the actual process.

Computer stew was probably the best `real` commentary on the bubble while it was happening..

Computer stew(no downloads from this link) was a daily comedy show that got me through working long long days back in the bubble days..John Hargrave the man behind the `stew` is funny and still seems to be going.

You can find the complete collection here.

Computer stew was probably the best `real` commentary on the bubble while it was happening.. There is nothing close to it now (or since), but then who is going to actually `pay` fulltime people anymore to create a comedy webcast? (zdnet really should have kept them around)

I love feed aggregation and having the ability to organize other blogs/etc by groups and search them.

I love feed aggregation and having the ability to organize other blogs/etc by groups and search them.
I have a scriptlet to quickly add sites to my aggregation and soon my list was *way* too big and started to get a little too much so I create a agg-site to hold organize them better and auto-link tags with a dropdown for other popular tag sites.
blog tagger is the site I set up at the old home of a project I ran called “pagepossible” which admittedly needed some work and it was time to retire it. Currently there are around 1,000 feeds (and growing) there with a lot content and tags coming in automatically all the time.

Now that nobody is dropping dead, it is time to get all kinds of litigious..

Now that nobody is dropping dead, it is time to get all kinds of litigious..
The people who were turned away by the city of gretna at gunpoint NEED to start filing class action lawsuits against these racist bastards.
They need to start suing the crap out the police, the city, the state, FEMA, the military and government, Gretna and surrounding areas that kept them from safety. They turned away people at gunpoint, keeping my friends, family, <

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