Yearly Archives: 2005
Bruised Heel, Not Crushed Hope
August 15, 2005 – 4:33 pm
For some variety, for the last couple of weeks I’ve changed my running route. Instead of following part of the Emerald Necklace, I’ve been riding the D line out of the city and running back in. Today after disembarking from the train and starting to warm up, I realized that my heel was still chafing […]
Firefox Market Share Slips
August 15, 2005 – 3:20 pm
Hearing news that Firefox’s market share slipped from 8.71% to 8.07% from June to July while Internet Explorer’s edged up about one percent, a friend emailed me: Apparently Firefox is losing market share. I think it’s just that everyone who wants it has already gotten it. The general public might try it but the minute […]
Internet Explorer 7 Beta Review: Part 1
August 6, 2005 – 3:18 pm
I’m interested in what features Internet Explorer 7 Beta has to offer, not because I’ll ever use it (Firefox’s extensions make it untouchable) but because the vast majority of computer users will. Those users will be seeing any websites I design, and I want to know how IE7 will make them look. So while IE7 […]
Steven Vincent and Nascent Iraqi Democracy
August 4, 2005 – 12:29 pm
Murdered journalist Steven Vincent got to know many Iraqi people first-hand. His freelance articles and blog entries offered reasons both for hope and for concern about democracy in Iraq. According to him, one thing to be concerned about was the misguided multi-cultural relativism displayed by the American and British troops. A blog article describes a […]