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I just came up with a good idea for dealing with documentation and I wanted to post about it. One application I’m working on is fairly complex but has no real documentation. Because want users to be able to contribute to the documentation, I decided to put it in a wiki. It occurred to [...]

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This week I’m busier than usual, so I’m giving NetNewsWire a bit of a rest. Yesterday was my first day of completely skipping the aggregator, and I was amazed at the overall productivity spike. (I also skipped a few other things I normally do.) This tells me that when I come back, I’m [...]

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The other day over on Of Interest I linked to an

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James Wolcott describes America:

One of the great paradoxes of our age is how the US can be so dimly complacent and so sharply fearful in the same breath. We’re in a constant state of sluggish agitation, worked up into a righteous state of indifference.

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I’ve been looking at digital cameras (again) lately, and I’m a bit confused about the economics of the various classes of camera. It seems like one relatively new category is the super-zoom camera. There are several cameras in the $350-$400 range with 5 or 6 megapixel CCDs and good 12x zoom lenses. Examples include the [...]

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I’ve not been all that interested in the latest setback for Windows Vista, mainly because I live in Mac world these days. My Windows PC, which I use for games and to run Eclipse, works perfectly well with Windows XP. Anyway, what I am interested in is the fact that immediately after admitting to the [...]

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One interesting debate that seems to crop up now and again is whether to provide full feeds or not. Shelley Powers offers partial feeds because she likes her site’s design and wants people to see it. I, on the other hand, would prefer people not to see mine, so I provide full feeds gladly. [...]

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I just read that the terms of running Yahoo ads on your site include blocking non-US visitors to your pages to prevent them from seeing the ads. What’s the reason for this? I suspect that it’s clickthrough fraud. If the levels of fraud demand this sort of hamfisted approach, there’s a lot of trouble [...]

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This morning I created a Web service for the identity management application that I have talked about a few times. We’re rolling out a new application and it needs to authenticate against our centralized user database. After a discussion with the developers who are working on the new application, we came up with a very [...]

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Have you ever noticed that people who are really good at their jobs tend to do them even when they’re not at work? I know that good graphic designers obsess over the design of every poorly designed thing that they see. What does a quality assurance engineer do? Find defects in everyday things, report [...]

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