What follows the “no-fly” list?

In this article, we get a foreshadowing of the new, lawless use of the “no-fly” list: Senate Intelligence Chairman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said a “very comprehensive no-fly list” would be “the greatest protection our country has.” In an interview, she said the definition of who can be included should be expanded to include anyone about whom there is “a reasonable suspicion.” ..

“Modern browsers” nearly doubled share in 2009; IE6 lost a third of its user base

So, we have December browser numbers, giving us complete year of browser stats for 2009 [browsers | browser versions]. Here are a few observations. ..

How about implied interfaces in C#?

I took a look at Google’s new language, Go. Some interesting stuff in there. ..

Questions about the Apple tablet that no one is answering yet

I don’t underestimate Apple’s ability to create unprecedented stuff, and to make it much better than anyone imagined. Yet for all the breathlessness about the supposed Apple tablet, no one seems to be asking the right questions. ..

Is this a good “non-profit” idea?

So, an idea I have been kicking around a while is BillableHour.org. Would like to gather some feedback. ..

Programmers and “productivity”

There have been some interesting posts lately asking the question, “if some programmers are 10 times as productive as others, why aren’t they paid 10 times as much?”. It’s a good question, though I don’t think the recent posts quite get to the heart of it. ..

AT&T etc etc

AT&T etc etc According to Gizmodo, AT&T comes out #1 for data performance. My interest is two-fold. First, I get a geek thrill is watching networks getting built. Second, I have a pet peeve about the whole AT&T-hating thing lately. ..

Preventing mission creep in your Views, or, ignorance is bliss

An important concept in MVC is that Views are meant to be “dumb” — and by that I mean, your View should only care about outputting a user interface, and should know very little about business logic. ..

John Resig jQuery talk

Very interesting (if-you’re-a-nerd) talk by John Resig. It’s real geek stuff but the takeaways are: ..

The Man sticks it to The Man; or, the Country-club Revolt; or, Whitey’s Revenge

So Fake Steve, who I like, thinks it would be funny to try to overload AT&T network tomorrow. Which, fine, OK, but consider this. ..