People all over the web are saying good bye to Netscape. Since Mozilla and Firefox started to get better, Netscape sort of faded away. Now it faded away so far that AOL decided to end the support for the browser. This is the time when thousands of people all around the world, including yours truly, … Continue reading Good bye, Netscape
While reading this post at Techdirt about a starting decline in DVD sales, I was thinking about quality and quantity… We get more and more music and movies released these days than ever. But most of them suck. Most of them suck so badly, that nobody cares about them. If I’m bored and I have … Continue reading Quantity and quality in the entertainment industry
ReadWriteWeb runs 2007 : The Year in RSS post. Nice read. Among other things it has this little tip: For some crazy reason the world is full of people who still feel morally obligated to read every single item in their feed reader. These people, probably the majority of RSS users in fact, complain that … Continue reading A little RSS reading tip
TechCrunch has an excellent cover of the “photograph in the video” story that has been going on all over the web in the last few days. Basically, somebody wrote a funny song and made a video for it. In that video a bunch of images were used including one that was downloaded from Flickr without … Continue reading On copyright, fair use, and free speech
My favorite (so far) programming language has been born 20 years ago.  It’s been loved and hated. It’s been praised and damned. It’s been complimented and criticized. But all that doesn’t matter. What matters is that it has been helping people all over the world to solve problems. Tricky, boring, annoying problems. It provided enough … Continue reading Happy Birthday, Perl!