My PacBell DSL line was down for a couple of hours this morning. My appologies to anyone who was trying to get to J-Space or to send email to me at jake@jspace.org. More news on the patent controversy on Scripting News, and on Davenet today. Also check out this list of controversial internet patents. Excite… Continue reading

Today’s survey: How many images are there on your site? How difficult the image management problem is seems to be an exponential function of how many images are on your site. How many do you have? Both Dave and Jeff pointed at the story I wrote yesterday about the farcical MSNBC program, The Summit in… Continue reading

I watched the Silicon Valley Summit on MSNBC tonight. While it was on, I logged on to MSNBC’s chat, and found it both interesting and frustrating… I highly recommend you sign up to NoWebPatents.org. I was the 49th person to enlist. Userland released code for that allows developers to create Manila Plugins. I’m going to… Continue reading

Somehow I managed to miss the link to Jeff Cheney’s coverage of Sally’s art show last Sunday. There’s an ongoing discussion about the apropriateness of using weblogs.com banners to promote sites that some may deem inappropriate. I wonder what the clickthrough rate would be on this banner?  How’s this for weird? CNN.com: Briton cures fatigue… Continue reading

Macworld has about 2,000 images on its site. Most of them are not needed immediately, but some are used frequently. I ran the profiler on a rendering of the Macworld homepage under mainResponder, and found that it was spending between 1,000, and 1,300 ticks in html.getImageData(). This was at least two orders of magnitude longer… Continue reading

I just got done with a meeting between Mac Publishing production and editorial staff, and a representative from Interwoven. They demoed TeamSite, which is a browser-based content management system. It’s got what looks like pretty sophisticated versioning, three-way diffs and merges, meta-data, a filesystem gateway, and hooks to web-design apps. What appears to be missing… Continue reading

Sally had her art show yesterday. There are tons of pictures up on her site. I had a gig at the Mission Rock earlier in the day, so I couldn’t get there until about 7:00. I was kind of bummed about that, but all went well. It was a good show too. Continue reading

New Survey: How long will you stay at your job? At least in Bay Area hi-tech jobs, turnover is nearly as high as it is for baggers at Safeway. If you work in hi-tech, how long do you expect to stay with your current employer? FYI, I’m going to try to run a new survey… Continue reading

I went out for a few drinks after work with the folks from Mac Publishing. Where’s my camera when I need it?!? One of the guys there is Paul Forrester. He used to be at Apple, during both the Scully days, and during the Jobs return. He worked in both the Rhapsody group, and on… Continue reading

Today’s featured room: (you guessed it) The living room! Continue reading