by Tom | Oct 26, 2001 | General
Puff, the Magic Genome. They’re close to figuring out the genetic sequencing of the Japanese pufferfish. Researchers are getting excited, and here’s why. Essentially the Puffer Fish has far less junk DNA than we do, so can be used to work out which bits of...
by Tom | Oct 25, 2001 | General
Reasonably good Zeldman article on what not to do in the downturn. 2:45:15 PMWhat is News Industry Text Format? 2:44:02 PMTalk | Dozens of reasons why CVS is better Visual SourceSafe. I’m happy to try some Windows-based CVS solutions. 2:42:02 PMA Linux OS to...
by Tom | Oct 23, 2001 | General
Excellent readings around PopTech. 3:19:16 PMMIT Technology Review: A Smarter Web. Many feel it can’t be done. Even though things are heating up in research labs, the Semantic Web as envisioned by Berners-Lee is hampered by social and technical challenges that...
by Tom | Oct 19, 2001 | General
NIST usability reporting standards. 5:33:28 PMInsight via Sam: New Chinese textbook on asymmetrical warfare contemplates killing Soros (etc) Spooky 4:38:55 PMScientific American: The Electronic Paper Chase. There have been intermittent efforts to produce such...
by Tom | Oct 18, 2001 | General
The Motley Fool’s guide to buying a car. First line: don’t do it. 11:35:38 AMFinally, a nice front end reporting tool for Analog. Now to work out how to make any sense of any of these results… 9:06:46 AMI didn’t know that Win2k Server had...
by Tom | Oct 15, 2001 | General
Good Economist article on the mobile internet. 1:54:56 PMInterview: Jakob Nielsen and Marie Tahir on Homepage Usability. We interview the authors about their upcoming book “Homepage Usability.” Your home page is your company’s public face to the...
