“When I was your age, I didn’t spend hours on the internet or have social networks, we watched a lot of crappy TV and memorized the periodic table and we...

Why is it that I keep hearing about brands and individuals dipping their toes into the power of the web and then sitting back and hoping that magic happens? What I mean...

In response to the FSF article on the iPhone, let me point you to the balanced view of Stu Charlton. Quote of the day: The OpenMoko counter-argument is "give it...

Blue Sun Corporation is and important, but not very noticeable part of the the brilliant, but so very canceled TV series Firefly. Their logo is everywhere you look, but...

Recently, we have been experiencing a bit of appliance stupidity in our house. Replacement parts for our refrigerator seem to be a major profit center for GE and our...

WCF is the second biggest framework after ASP.NET that sooner or later forces you to use a static "context" property to do anything beyond the trivial stuff. ASP.NET has...

The recently-deployed "Twat-o-Tron", a nifty little script that regurgitates pieces of the incoherent xenophobic rants that usually infest the BBC's Have Your Say...

I missed the release of the new 1.5.0 version of Subversion. Its funny, actually. This was somewhere around June (the blog post lacks a proper date), and I didn't see it...

I love my Comcast broadband... no issues with uptime, no issues with connectivity, no problems at all. Their cable service is great too, if not as good as the broadband....

Dear Google & Yahoo!, In recent months both of you have released wonderful ActionScript libraries that allow us developers to access your mapping services. To have...

Every once in a while I encounter an online service or Web site that is so irritating that it seems like the people behind the service are just in it to frustrate Web...

While I’m writing about new site launches, I also want to mention LearnHub, which went live to the public last week. Last year, our good friends John and Malgosia...

If you've read some of the recent news on the web, you'll find at the top of many tech news sites a preview of Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 7. This new...

Sys-Con, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I've been observing this unfolding bit of community politic the last couple of days and I have to say, it's been...

This week my MakeZine newsletter had an interesting article in it that referenced a post called Miles per Gallon vs. Gallons per Mile. Suppose you had a household with...

This isn't really a full blown article but just some random thoughts and an invitation to some discussion. I'm very interested in how fellow web developers are feeling...

I used to skateboard when I was a teenager. This was during the times when Tony Hawk was in his prime...Powell Peralta was the number one skateboard company on the...

The Bruce Freeman Rail Trail is a proposed development in Massachusetts that will convert a former railroad bed into a 25 mile, multi-purpose trail stretching from...

Has the mission of OLPC changed so much? I say it has. No longer are the five core principals initially employed when the project started valid. The original Five Core...

The solution is simple. If you truly believe in open standards, open source and the good that it has created, then don’t accept it. Cubrilovic sounds more jealous...