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Apparently mislabeled as Episode 95 in iTunes.
Commented Mar 29, 2012 on Re: Joyce, Episode 94: Walking Into Eternity at Frank Delaney
Re: Joyce, Episode 94: Walking Into Eternity
Stephen walks blindly in borrowed boots and trousers. Los demiurgos and William Blake.
@Tcv, to be clear, your killfile hid problematic posts from *you*, but it did not actually erase those posts from the newsgroup.
Commented Jun 4, 2011 on Suspension, Ban or Hellban? at Coding Horror
Suspension, Ban or Hellban?
For almost eight months after launching Stack Overflow to the public, we had no concept of banning or blocking users. Like any new frontier town in the wilderness of the internet, I suppose it was inevitable that we'd be obliged to build a jail at some point. But first we had to come up with so...
Powell's is partnering with the Google eBookstore: http://blogs.forbes.com/michaelhumphrey/2010/12/17/googles-un-goliath-ebook-strategy-a-chat-with-powells-books/?boxes=Homepagechannels
Commented Dec 18, 2010 on Don't Change What is Fine as It Is/Another Perspective at Seattle Mystery Bookshop
Don't Change What is Fine as It Is/Another Perspective
Last night we watched It's a Wonderful Life - my first time for 2010, but probably not the last as it is such a delightfully subversive movie - and I had this thought strike me this morning: colorization. Remember when the great controversy was the colorization of classic old black and white mov...
I think ebooks are here to stay, but printed books aren't going away.
I like printed books individually. I have thousands of them. In the aggregate, they're a nuisance. They're bulky, they're heavy, they fall apart, they grow moldy, they burn. Yet a well-crafted printed book is more attractive than an ebook.
I have a Nook and an iPhone. I've read dozens of ebooks on them. Novels, read linearly, are easier to read than technical books where I need to flip back and forth, take notes, or look in the index.
I don't seriously expect to be using a device like the Nook in five years. I hope it's evolved.
Commented Dec 18, 2010 on Don't Change What is Fine as It Is/Another Perspective at Seattle Mystery Bookshop
Don't Change What is Fine as It Is/Another Perspective
Last night we watched It's a Wonderful Life - my first time for 2010, but probably not the last as it is such a delightfully subversive movie - and I had this thought strike me this morning: colorization. Remember when the great controversy was the colorization of classic old black and white mov...
SessionLock and SessionLock Lite (to a lesser extent) present a partial SSL solution: http://benlog.com/articles/2010/10/25/keep-your-hands-off-my-session-cookies/
Commented Nov 15, 2010 on Breaking the Web's Cookie Jar at Coding Horror
Breaking the Web's Cookie Jar
The Firefox add-in Firesheep caused quite an uproar a few weeks ago, and justifiably so. Here's how it works: Connect to a public, unencrypted WiFi network. In other words, a WiFi network that doesn't require a password before you can connect to it. Install Firefox and the Firesheep add-in. W...
This seems like another factor which will push customers towards ebooks, which is also bad for the small bookstores.
Is there any way for the small bookstores to get a piece of the ebook pie for mainstream books?
Commented Oct 12, 2010 on Future Good or Future Bad? at Seattle Mystery Bookshop
Future Good or Future Bad?
We see this morning in a Publisher's Weekly report that Macmillan will be joining forces with Ingram for the printing and distribution of backlist books 'with a tail'. We're not exactly sure what the 'tail' bit means but we assume it means authors' older titles that sell occasionally but are ...
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