Archive for February, 2008

Communications Etiquette 101

We all have our pet-peaves. Some of us have laundry lists of them. My list of personal pet-peaves is rather short, and as far as my business pet-peaves, there is only one: Communications Etiquette.
What I am going to propose below might startle some of you largely due to the fact that most of us don’t […]

Vista and Leopard: Both victims of bad parenting.

When Vista was released the chorus of complaints and criticisms quickly grew from a low hum to a near deafening roar. A little more than 4 months since Apple released Leopard and that low hum of discontent has already been amplified to the sound of fingernails being dragged on a chalkboard. So far I have only […]

Practicing Good Form

In the beginning, there was “mailto:” and it was good (or at least functional to a point). Then Matt Wright graced us with the Perl script we all know as Form Mail for collecting and validating the users input.
Initially FormMail was touted to be a feature-rich, fully-functional send-mail script that would (and did) revolutionize the […]

Mozilla delivers third beta for Firefox 3 browser.

Mozilla Corp. released the third beta of Firefox 3 Wednesday, eight weeks after it made the last major milestone for its open-source browser, and right on a schedule it set a dozen days ago.
Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s interface designer, touted additions and enhancements to Beta 3 in a post to the company’s Web site Tuesday, touting […]

Yahoo will decide on Microsofts offer this week.

According to sources, Yahoo is deciding between just two options. Accept the offer in principal, but get Microsoft to fork over some more coin, or attempt to partner with Google and outsource advertising to the Internet giant.