16. November, 2003 - grab bag
- Optimization Week says Presidential Homepages Violate Speed and Accessibility Guidelines. Yes, even Howard Dean’s site sucks. [boing boing]
- Patent office to re-examine Eolas patent which wants licensing fees for browsers that can handle embedded objects. This is a good one to look at again, and it’s good that the patent office is, but I still wonder why the prior art wasn’t spotted in the first place. [zeldman]
- On Friday, as I was driving to meet some ex-co-workers for lunch, “Spam” came up on my iPod and I found myself singing along to it while in the car. Does liking the Weird Al version more than the original make me a bad man?
- Here’s a description of how to get your pictures off the DakotaDigitalCamera without having to take it back to Ritz/Wolf Camera and pay $12 to get a CD burned with your pictures. [gizmodo]
- The SH066P Personal Cell Phone Jammer looks like a cell-phone and will jam all cell-phone signals in a 30-50 foot radius. Just the thing when you’re not in the mood to listen to one side of a cell-phone conversation in public. [gizmodo]
- An aspect of buying a home that’s proving interesting is how my current neighbors are reacting. My landlord said that he thought it long-past time that I move into a house of my own (basically implying that it was time I started to act like an adult). Many neighbors have been very supportive and have offered warm feelings and assistance moving all my crap (I’m probably going to hire movers for the big stuff). But then there are a few whose first reaction was to worry about what would happen to the neighborhood association or the website with me moving away. See, my new house is in the Southeast Como neighborhood, and not in any of the traditional SE wards (PDF), since it’s north of Hennepin Avenue. It is, and will be in the first ward. I guess they’re right to be curious. I don’t know the answers yet, but I wasn’t planning to pull the plug on it just because I’m moving to another neighborhood.
- St. Paul’s river road ready to get rolling. They’ve finally (after 20 years) finished Shepard Road near downtown St. Paul. I’ll probably try and bike along it when the weather’s nice again, but it sounds much improved. [press-patch]
- As they’ve always told us: Guinness is good for you.
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Last updated on Sun, 16 Nov 2003 07:28:05.