Category Archives: web

web: say no to JavaScript templates you can’t try in a browser

Posted on 2012-02-23 by skierpage

Dear developers of JavaScript templating systems (all 23 of you), Instead of telling me that your baby runs in a browser and even showing me canned examples, let me interactively try it out! So Handlebars.js wins over EJS, jQote2, JSON … Continue reading →

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web: Conoco’s feedback form incompetence proves SPage’s Law

Posted on 2012-02-18 by skierpage

Conoco-Phillips-76 e-mails me that my February statement is available on their web site. No it isn’t, they only have statement activity. I want to help companies do a better job, so I try and tell them using their contact form … Continue reading →

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computers: browser-based efforts

Posted on 2011-11-28 by skierpage

I wrote a year ago that when it comes to computers, I want to be browser-based — since I’m doing most of my work in the browser, let me do nearly all my work in the browser. Boot 2 Gecko … Continue reading →

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web: Amazon Cloud music, digits online, and piracy

Posted on 2011-03-29 by skierpage

Amazon’s Cloud Drive/Cloud Music Player is intriguing. It lets you play music from an online storage folder. It’s easy for Amazon to implement since they already have all the music files, so the millionth user with a hit song doesn’t … Continue reading →

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software: Google/Android doesn’t know how to link

Posted on 2011-02-01 by skierpage

Why doesn’t Google/Android understand that “John Smith” or “Monk’s coffee shop” in an event, event location, or task refers to a contact in their own Contacts application? Continue reading →

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web: Why is there Facebook at all?

Posted on 2011-01-12 by skierpage

Social networking sites are weird. All they do is host shared bits of data between groups of people they mislabel as “friends”. But why on earth do we store our  private thoughts, pictures, and information on a central site that … Continue reading →

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computers: I want to be browser-based

Posted on 2010-12-10 by skierpage

Google’s ChromeOS “nothing but web” replacement for the heavyweight PC environment is nearing release, though overshadowed by Android’s unstoppable rise for smart phones and tablets and Google TV. I wish Firefox and the Linux distributions would proceed with similar initiatives. … Continue reading →

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open source: YOU are the marketing department

Posted on 2010-10-07 by skierpage

There are hundreds of thousands of open source projects, each addressing a problem and hoping to make the world a better place, and most struggle to gain traction.  It’s disheartening that so many open source contributors fail so badly at … Continue reading →

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web: computer NELL learns by reading

Posted on 2010-10-06 by skierpage

NELL follows in the footsteps of Cyc, but Wikipedia already codifies all the easy facts. Continue reading →

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Blogger import and maintaining old blog URLs

Posted on 2010-09-18 by skierpage

I exported my site from the Blogger console, which produced a big XML file of my site in Atom feed format.  Now what? I can import by Adding the Blogger import plug-in to WordPress, which seems to ignore the export … Continue reading →

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