Archive for October, 2007

October 11th, 2007

MMP loses… was it fair?

MMP lost. What a disappointment. Yet another year that my vote has made no difference, and I once again get 0% representation in government. I heard a mini-poll conducted by a dude on the radio, asking people as they went into the polls, if they knew what the referendum question was. ...
October 3rd, 2007

randomhaiku on clothing

Thanks to the labyrinthine but functional API at Zazzle, you can now get a random haiku printed on a T-shirt. look at this sample
October 1st, 2007

linkbucks sucks.

I tried Linkbucks (I won't compliment them with a link) on this blog for a few weeks. It basically rewrote all my external links to go through an interstitial advertising page. My sincere apologies go out to anyone who was annoyed by that. It was an experiment. My assessment: it's just ...
October 1st, 2007

Javascript on Demand: part two

Isn't it nice when a neat idea actually works? Javascript-on-demand (JOD), a technique that I toyed with a few months ago, is being put through trials on a real product. That the technique works is already proven, what's left is to determine whether the technique (using selectors to load javascript Assets ...