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Michael Mahemoff
>> wired: the web is the API, tired: the API; expired: the show pony web page; certifiable train wreck: data locked up in PDF
Michael Mahemoff
>> The best 3 mobile will do is send me a normal bill, not itemised, without upping my monthly rate, as if it cost them any more!! Petty effort
Michael Mahemoff
>> 3 have decided mid-contract i must pay a pound extra each month unless i sign up to some ebill system. Will waive this month. Escalating it.
Michael Mahemoff
>> when i enter my mobile number into the cust service line 3 provided, they tell me to call another number (and only say it 1ce). #CRMFail
Michael Mahemoff
>> calling 3 to find out why my monthly broadband bill jumped a quid with no explanantion
Michael Mahemoff
>> http://is.gd/8od9 @WardCunningham"now that theyare calling a wiki a wiki..i'll call my searches Googles again...or should i call them wikis"
Michael Mahemoff
>> thought i was feeling lucky to be invited to google searchwiki, then i notice it on techmeme it's just gone public
Michael Mahemoff
>> getting good value from WTFramework bookmarklet http://is.gd/76Kc one of those "why didn't someone think of that before?!!"
Michael Mahemoff
>> tr.im sure has a neat JSON API for tiny URLs, i only wish these sites respected the hash, that's what ajax apps need of them.
Michael Mahemoff
>> wondering what happened to @rem's awesome unciode lookup. But @philhawksworth just found the dashboard widget at apple.com http://is.gd/80hu
Michael Mahemoff
>> http://is.gd/7YYt registered with bells on for the last.fm hackday! London-Sun-14-Dec (thanks @psd for letting me know)
Michael Mahemoff
>> mediawiki could be much better for spam-busting: delete links on search, no confirmation, explicit revert support, rollback-by-IP/user
Michael Mahemoff
>> http://is.gd/7WMJ posted @themaninblue's JS-909 Javascript drum machine to ajaxian
Michael Mahemoff
>> logging into slicehost for the first time in > a year, deleting several gig of /tmp/ruby_sess* for weborandom.com and to make new stuff
Michael Mahemoff
>> http://is.gd/7RFl @dalmaer's image nails the open/prorietary divide on the web (you just need java on the left too)
Michael Mahemoff
>> Chuffed to see a cartoony version of my "hope and opp'ty" post in @mvalente's serverside JS presentation http://is.gd/7Q8C Starbucks JS ftw!
Michael Mahemoff
>> It turns out gratuitous flash animation and forcing users to click stuff does *not* make mandatory training "feel more fun and interactive"
Michael Mahemoff
>> Reading ink1 reviews from @jayfresh et al http://is.gd/7DbN http://is.gd/7rje. A mighty revolution right there for the low end mobiles.
Michael Mahemoff
>> shaking my head in disbelief that people still install crippled builds of vim on servers in 2008, to save memory or something :-?
Michael Mahemoff
>> After much sweat and a few tears, finally transferred 78KB of code to a "hardened" server.I was about to start typing the whole thing in ssh
Michael Mahemoff
>> http://mahemoff.com/project/guid0/ Javascript GUID generator demo (view source for the lib and its params). To be blogged ...
Michael Mahemoff
>> http://is.gd/74xw astonishing and at the same time all-too-duh how effectively google search terms predict flu outbreaks in advance.Wowzers!
Michael Mahemoff
>> preparing for some pain after wrapping a whole chunk of functional JS into a single object
Michael Mahemoff
>> Since @jayfresh pointed out safari console.log(multiple,args) is broken http://is.gd/71RT , we can use if (console && console.firebug) {..}
Michael Mahemoff
>> The wikipedia entries for colours ("red" "blue" etc) need work. The "meaning" section is generally unreferenced western-biased stereotypage.
Michael Mahemoff
>> wrote a little Javascript lbrary for generating GUIDs, guid0. Will be able to use it in tiddlywiki to generate unique tiddler IDs.
Michael Mahemoff
>> www.tosseduk.com salads you can customise over the web and get delivery. Great concept but IsTossedDown? Most of the time, yes.
Michael Mahemoff
>> http://is.gd/5pLW Jaxer goes 1.0 --- props @aptana! Server-side Javascript FTW!!!
Michael Mahemoff
>> loving the "attack ad generator" http://is.gd/5lrY (though rearrange is broken?), imagining offline JinglyWiki apps for this kind of thing
Michael Mahemoff
>> onlick is not a standard DOM event in modern browsers. #OnClickYoureTypingItWrong
Michael Mahemoff
>> http://is.gd/56uU westminster motorbike parking FAIL. So this is the "increased security" that justifies the introduction of parking fees???
Michael Mahemoff
>> pleased to be using a simpler storage structure for tiddlyweb now, thanks @cdent, done the refactorings and it's all working again.
Dragos Manolescu
>> Scott and I will be available for a Web Sandbox deep dive; look for us by one of the whiteboards Tuesday at 3PM in the expo area at #pdc2008
Michael Mahemoff
>> called by an insurance salesman who picked up my details from a web submission, passed me to some guy who wanted all details again. CRM FAIL
Michael Mahemoff
>> Dropdown menus with only one option ... giving you the comfortable illusion you're still in the driver's seat. #unusability
Michael Mahemoff
>> Retweeting @codinghorror: it's amazing how often the answer to any JavaScript question is pretty much "use JQuery"
Michael Mahemoff
>> @DrPep nw-the terminal app was "terminator", the java process that got killed.I upgraded to latest iterm, no longer forces transparency+fast
Michael Mahemoff
>> @DrPep thankyou - wasn't planning on killing the process but it's one way to find out! And puff went the terminal from where i typed it :)