We have had customers who have astroturfed. We have taken the piss out of them, in the vain hope they’d stop. This is what might happen if they don’t. The Internet is a surly bitch. (ta Francois).
The above is a video done by friends Eko for Science City York. I post, simply as I rather like it, and you can see two of our sites in there somewhere
Well. It’s taken me a long time to find something in Firefox that I both genuinely dislike and fundamentally disagree with the reasoning behind the decision.
Turns out that in Firefox 2 you cannot style RSS feeds with XSL direct in the browser. Because, wait for it, they sniff the content and override your style sheet with their own.
Um. This is Microsoft-like hubris, isn’t it? If I take the time and effort to write a stylesheet and put it in my document, then surely I want it styled using that sheet, don’t I? The comment from the developers are pretty upsetting too:
With more than 99% of the feeds with stylesheets just trying to do what we’re doing, but without the knowledge of what aggregators the user actually uses and without the chrome privileges to subscribe them, not using our transformation on feeds that have a stylesheet would just make for a worse and less consistent experience for our users.
Surely this is up to me to decide, is it not? And now even more Microsoft-like:
please avoid chiming with your opinions/beliefs/etc (on either side). That’s just adding to the noise. We don’t make feature choices based on who shouts the loudest.
There is a (very ugly) workaround, but dear God, what a strange choice and intransigent attitude. I’m genuinely surprised.
I can’t tell you how excited I am. We’ve been working on this in our spare time for such a long time now I’m amazed that we’ve actually finally made it. Forkd.com is live, in beta, and ready for your recipes. If I’ve not already sent you an invitation mail me (andy at isotoma.com) and I’ll sort one out straight away. Go for it people!
I’m sure I’m not the only Agile advocate who is passing this around, but I can’t help it.
An old friend, Natasha, has gone into business. Apple Tree Clothing is organic environmentally friendly clothes for kids. She’s only been going a few weeks and it seems like it’s going really well.
My interest (other than the lovely clothes, obviously)? I’ve just helped Richard redo the website. Go there, buy things (and be impressed by the HTML, of course. I’ve not even managed that level of perfection on my own site!).
It’s finally here. Dave, Antony and Tom have been toiling away over a hot stove for the past few weeks and Forkd is finally ready for the tasting. It’s the feta release right now (d’ya see what we did there?) - if you’d like a feta tester account mail me. They’re very limited, but so is the readership of this blog… You’ll need a genuine love of food, a desire to show the world your cooking and the patience to log good bug reports and feature requests. If you’re interested please drop me a line (andy at isotoma.com will do it).
We bought a squeezebox for the office a month ago. In so doing we took the music from being either my or Doug’s choice (we were the only two with speakers attached to our machines) to being anything anyone has brought in, democratically served up on a first come first served basis.
Things we’ve learned?
If you are so inclined you can see what we’re listening to right now over at last.fm, where we scrobble as Isotoma.
Fascinating piece by Joel Spolsky on the future of application software. I have a feeling he’s on to something…