phil ringnalda

Quoting from Sucking less, on a budget, for reasons that will be obvious to some:
Beta
A friend asked me today if Camino 1.1 was even in alpha. Heck, we’re on alpha two, but I guess we haven’t real...

I really, really hope that SPI Labs, whose widely trumpeted report on Javascript vulnerabilities in feed readers left me cold, were spoofing their user-agent string when they filed their bug on (an...

Back in February, not long after the Intel iMacs came out, I decided I needed one. I’d been using a limping Windows desktop as a stereo, and a not so limping Windows laptop as an everything-else, b...

Because I’m both stupid, and a glutton for punishment, my reaction to the news that Six Apart wants to make Trackback a standard was to sign up for the mailing list.
Their reaction?
The email addre...

I wonder, does anyone have anything they’d like to say about some new work they’re doing, maybe with an open source project?

Paul Bausch is absolutely right that Firefox’s current update notification, a popup dialog that gives you the choice between “stop what you are doing and restart your browser right now” and “be nag...

Several things are interesting me about IE7β2, but most of all is a relatively minor decision in the feed handling code.
If you start from the RSS 2.0.1-rv6 spec, and follow along carefully, ...

Now that’s my kind of Google: via their results weblog, Last Google (Beta), providing you with the last thing Google wants you to see. For lots of things we both talk about, Randy’s got me beat for...

Because it lacked the all-important feature of being about me, me, me, I’d forgotten that I wasn’t the only one getting unpersoned by Google: Matt Mower doesn’t exist either.
The situation isn’t qu...

As (Google employee) Nelson Minar notes, sometimes changing URLs by returning a 301 Moved Permanently with the new URL works out fine with search engines: if you search Google for [for fear they’ll...