What's up with Yahoo?

Yahoo is definitely experiencing some pain. Three days ago, my favorite part of my.yahoo -- the news feeds of items related to your portfolio -- just disappeared, leaving a big open void in the middle of my page. No word on where it went, why, or when it might return.

posted: 2007-08-29 22:43:26 34 comments Read More

Content Aware Image Resizing

More cool work with images from Siggraph :

posted: 2007-08-28 14:02:46 108 comments Read More

Fire Tonight

There was a fire tonight near Cedar Bluff and Middlebrook. My wife and I first noticed it on our way home from dinner. There was a large plume of smoke, but I didn't think it was dark enough to be a real fire. Curious, we detoured towards it and went to a video store to get a movie for Ben. When we got out, it definitely seemed darker.

posted: 2007-08-11 23:39:18 19 comments Read More

Two Column Layout

I've gone to a two column layout for the blog entry pages as minor experiment on usability. My premise is that, on the web, interaction is important. So much so that people often find the comments on an item as interesting or more than the content proper. If this is true, then the comments should be given greater weight somehow on the page.

posted: 2007-08-06 23:56:42 4 comments Read More

Why do I blog?

It's a good question that has been put to me at couple of time recently. I've got a few answers.

First, for me, the reason I got into blogging was as a technology experiment. I wanted to play with blog-related technology so that I could understand it better. It's clear that I am not a writer. I do not enjoy writing. I find it one of the most difficult activities one can undertake. So much of human language is so vague. I prefer computer languages. ( As an ...

posted: 2007-08-05 12:28:31 158 comments Read More

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