Category: The Web Sucks

David Jeske has inspired me to upgrade MovableType on radwin.org to a more modern version. Pretty seamless upgrade so far to MT 4.12 personal, but good golly, that’s a way different UI than I’m used to. [Update: Damn, I need some anti-spam comment plugins. Now that I’m back on a more modern version of MT, […]

We got a little bit of good press today. See JackMyers Media Business Report: “Either We Kill Click Fraud or Click Fraud is Going to Kill the Online Ad Business.” Anchor Intelligence Launches ClearMark. I’ve been at Anchor Intelligence (formerly Fraudwall Technologies) for a little over a year now. Writing code to fight the bad […]

My cousin is spending quite a bit of time in South America, and he wants to change his Yahoo! Mail account to display user interface elements in Spanish instead of English. He asked me for help, and sure enough, there was nothing useful at the Yahoo! Mail Help site. I tried it out on my […]

Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:58:38 -0500From: Richard … <…@hotmail.com>To: michael@radwin.orgSubject: Java.io and java.util I know you don’t know who I am, but I’m trying to get help with Textpad. I’m trying to use java.io and java.util and can’t seem to get it to work. Are those classes that need to be in the same […]

I’m at the O’Reilly Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco today and tomorrow. The conference is really interesting; Udi demo’d the A9 Maps product (which they finished at 2am last night) and we also got to see a splashy marketing-oriented preview of Microsoft’s Virtual Earth poduct. As a recent Flickr subscriber, I was intrigued by […]

I just got a Flickr Pro account and I’ve been uploading my digital photos. My Treo 650 doesn’t stick EXIF data in the JPEG images it captures, so Flickr assumes that the “posted on” date is the same as the “taken on” date. The file attributes of the Photo_MMDDYY_NNN.jpg files accurately reflect what time the […]

I just watched the 8-minute web video of Battleground Minnesota. It’s a Get Out the Vote documentary aimed at young voters which aired on public television last fall. We didn’t know why Gabriel had been so delinquent in updating his blog last year. We figured he was working on some other project. Now we know […]

Do you know of any good Perl or PHP modules for parsing XLIFF? I’ve gotten a couple of emails from folks asking about making a French version of my Jewish Calendar Tools website. They’ve volunteered to do all of the translation work themselves if I send them a file to be translated. Most of the […]

I got an email last week from AT&T Labs saying that UWIN 4.0 had been released. I must’ve signed up for the uwin-announce mailing list a long time ago, because there hasn’t been a message sent to that list in over four years. Last I remember, UWIN 2.2 was hot off the presses during the […]

A9 launched a beta of Yellow Pages this evening. They’ve got the same DHTML interactive map that Yahoo has, but differentiating feature is an image of every business listed. For example, one of my favorite LA restaurants is Real Food Daily. Apparently they acquired these images by driving trucks with digital cameras and GPS around […]