Cristie Kerr kisses the trophy she received for winning the LPGA Longs Drugs Challenge at the Twelve Bridges Golf Club in Lincoln, Calif., Sunday, April 21, 2002. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) All I wanna know is who designed that darn trophy, and what s/he was thinking at the time. 
Monthly Archives: April 2002
IE Powertoys
IE’s Powertoys, the less famous sibling of the MS toyshas one tool called Quick Search that’s worth its weight in gold. Using this, I can use the address bar to direct searches: `ng sci.crypt’ takes me to Google Groups, with sci.crpyt opened. `pl glob’ shows me perldoc.com docs for glob, `dc foo’ shows me dictionary.com definition for foo. `te foo’ and `dp bar’ do Teoma and Daypop searches. And so on. Fun. Definitely complements the Google toolbar.
Being Cowboy Neal
I am not sure if I have had too much too drink, but there’s something about this page that doesn’t look right.
"It's the Runtime, Stupid"
Sam Gentile: (On C#) There’s not enough complexity in this language to warrant reading a book on the language itself. All of your questions can be answered by judicious reading of the C# language spec. Yes!
Catherine Raymond on the CBDTPA
Catherine Raymond: The CBDTPA – A closer look.
My Browser Stats
Wow. in the one month that Chaoszone has been up, over 24% of my visitors have come on non-Microsoft browsers. Not too bad. 15% are non-MS OS users (Windows 2000 is the leader there with 32%), with Linux at 7% and the Mac at 5%. These are very atypical of what mainstream sites get, of course, but if 24% visitors to a site use a non-Microsoft browser, there’s reason for hope. Especially now that Mozilla is reaching the magic v1 figure, complete with native widget support (only for XP and OSX — boo!), we might get away from a single browser monopoly.
Gujarat Burning
13 die in Gujarat as violence escalates. Is there a good way to contain this chauvinistic barbarism and still maintain a functioning democracy?
Google Browse
Kasei.com’s Google Browse (after Dave’s GOB) could be a great game! Rules:
- Start with an URL. Any URL. The objective of the game is to return to bring this URL back to the top 10 related sites.
- Choose any URL in the top 10 list. You cannot choose this URL again.
- Rinse, lather, repeat.
- The game ends when the first URL returns to the top 10 list (win), or when all the top 10 links have been previously chosen (lose). Of course, the possibility of an indeterminate result is pretty large
- If more than one person is playing, then the one with lesser `hops’ wins.
Improve your browsing skills! Impress your friends! More seriously, if someone sets out to graph this (are you listening Rob?), I bet it will throw up some interesting patterns. Would give a whole new meaning to the term ‘Circle of acquaintances’.
MSN Messenger Wire Protocol
Venkydude: The Innards of the MSN Messenger Wire Protocol. The old IETF Draft is also available.
Power Users aren't Tweakers
Joel Spolsky: I’ve asked a lot of my ‘power user’ friends about this; hardly any of them do any customization other than the bare minimum necessary to make their system behave reasonably.