ReceptacleJason Carlin on Web design, development, user experience, and other such tomfoolery.My Friend Frank Hates The Word "Zeitgeist"- December 27, 2005 And he's got a point. It really does kind of stink of Web Nouveau marketing hype. I'm sure at some point "zeitgeist" stunk of magazine or television trends as well. If there was a call to use the term more often, it might even find it's place on a list of Obnoxious Industry Terms That Have Lost All Meaning right in between "edgy" and "compelling".Google doesn't care, though. The word means something and is an accurate description of what...http://www.escapist.net/receptacle/archives/2005/12/my_friend_frank.php Don't Be A Dick. Support Creative Commons- December 23, 2005 Come on. I did it and I'm a total cheap skate! Creative Commons is in need of financial support. For the uninitiated, they are a non-profit organization dedicated to providing a simple, standardized way for content providers to control permissions to their work. All of the content on this blog is protected by a Creative Commons license and anyone can easily understand what that entails. How Click the link and it's described there in simple, easy to understand, human readable words. Creative.http://www.escapist.net/receptacle/archives/2005/12/dont_be_a_dick.php Firefox Extensions for version 1.5- December 21, 2005 So Firefox 1.5 is a significant improvement. They've included a few features that probably shouldve been there all along, improved the preferences panel, dramatically shortened startup time, and solved memory and cycle leak problems. Downside Some extension developers have been slow to update their products, and that's left a few of us without our favorite extended Firefox features. So there are a few options here. You can wait for authorized updates from the developers. They're all...http://www.escapist.net/receptacle/archives/2005/12/firefoxz_extens.php |