Supporting timezones is a pain in the ass, but it’s a necessary evil for some sites and there are two working solutions as I see it.
Err the Blog — This is a huge pain and sooner or later I’ll have to deal with it. Of course, he adds a third solution.
It was pointed out to me in a recent email exchange that it’s a little odd that I don’t have a cell phone.
There. I said it. I don’t have a cell phone.
D'Arcy Norman — D’Arcy has my sympathies. I don’t have a cell phone either. Had one but I left it in the car or at home or where ever. Never did figure out how to get messages off of it. A Blackberry is looking tempting as long as I can totally disable the ringer. I know there is a data-only service but I might want to call out.
In 1986 Henry Lieberman presented at OOPSLA a really simple object system based on delegation to any other object rather than on inheritance through some fixed tree of definitions. … Javascript is getting “serious” by adding classes and type checking and so on. Bah.
Patrick Logan at Making it stick — I was in Orlando at OOPSLA the year (1987 the paper says) that the ‘Treaty of Orlando’ came about. There are links in Patrick’s article. I went to OOPSLA that year for the first time, and I really didn’t get OOP very well — maybe not at all. I happened to be sitting beside David Unger (at the time just ‘David’, one of the ‘signatories’ and authors of the treaty) at breakfast or the morning break — I can’t remember — who explained OO so clearly and quickly and concisely that it was almost embarassing. Someone should have written that down. Anyway, he explained OO via delegation. I still think that way.
Link to a PDF of a presentation at SXSW
If you didn’t make it to the Web App Autopsy panel at SXSW, you can download the notes here. They’re invaluable for anyone building web applications!
Ryan Carson at Vitamin News — Interesting!
Church considers slavery payments
The Church, which owned slaves on plantations in the Caribbean, apologised for its role last year. … The slaves owned by the Church were eventually freed in 1833 — 26 years after the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire. … And the Church received government compensation for the loss of slave labour of almost £9,000.
BBC NEWS — Well, yeah, maybe you should be thinking about that — that and paying back the government. That would be the Anglican/Church of England. Emphasis is mine.
Dutch researcher Harm Veling has demonstrated that our brains fend off distractions. If we are busy with something we suppress disrupting external influences. If we are tired, we can no longer do this.
EurekAlert — Is that all it is… tiredness?
The only thing we have to fear is . . . us
To Brzezinski, the very invocation of this phrase — and the policy paradigm associated with it — has done damage “infinitely greater than any wild dreams entertained by the fanatical perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks.” Strong words. Here’s what else he has to say
Phillip Carter at INTEL DUMP — Worth a read.
Dice stackingProjectionist — Fun video on, well, dice stacking.
in a “shopping list” of features [IntelliJ] might lose to the others, but it wins because the implementation and the design feel more consistent to me
dataFaber 2.1 — An evaluation of Java IDEs. I agree with the outcome, IntelliJ actually got me out of vi for a while.
Toronto Tech Week - May 28 to June 1 - Toronto, Canada
Toronto Tech Week is quickly approaching and will be represent the first time that Toronto’s technology industry has come together around a single activity or event, or in this case 20 event over 7 days that will allow for education, celebration and networking. Toronto represents over 3,300 firms and 148,00 employees which together create over $30 billion in sales and $6 billion in exports.
Dave Forde at Profectio
SearchMash lets you search the internet in new ways. It is constantly evolving as we come up with ideas and figure out what works and what doesn’t. Check back here from time to time to see what has changed, and also to tell us which ones are useful to you. Please bear with us when the site is unavailable as we are limiting its use.
Kind of nice search thing from Google. Have a play. Check out the features page for some of the nice AJAXy stuff.
eRadio started about a month ago when i decided i wanted a radio widget to control various stations in the st. Louis area. My idea broadened when i realized i could use the radio for all different cities all around the world. The original widget is based off of Rabbit Radio.
Nice idea, but I can’t seem to get it to work.
Dictaphones are yesterday’s news. Transcriva turns the mechanical chore of transcribing audio recordings into a natural, fluid process with the simplicity only a Mac application can offer.
Bartas Technologies — I needed this a couple of years ago. Really nice tool to help transcribe audio recordings. Hmm, I can still use this…
These are the guys who did CopyWrite, a minimalist word processor kind of thing with organisational capabilities for writers. They have some other stuff now too.
Thousands stripped of Canadian citizenship
While Citizenship and Immigration Minister Diane Finley says her department is only dealing with 450 cases of so-called “Lost Canadians,” new documents obtained late last week by CBC News show that her department has stripped citizenship from at least 4,000 Canadians in just seven years.
They include the wives and children of Canadian soldiers who were born abroad, anyone born abroad whose parents failed to sign a Registration of Birth Abroad form, people considered to have been born out of wedlock to a non-Canadian mother and people who fall into several other categories.
But demographics expert Barry Edmonston of the University of Victoria said … “If you add up the six different groups, it’s somewhere in the range of 100,000 to 200,000 people affected by the 1947 Citizenship Act.”
CBC News — Brilliant!
