dave: November 2007 Archives
Yet again this morning, I've been unable to read any of the SCMP on the internet.
How is it that the techies responsible for getting the SCMP on the internet can be so incompetent? Regurgitating pages from a database to a webpage is a solved problem, and has been for many years.
The non-availability happens at least once per week, sometimes more often. I also notice that there are clearly problems with the cookie handling, as sometimes the site remembers my logged-in status and sometimes it doesn't.
Incompetence or just lack of caring? I'm not sure, but it's pretty typical of our pseudo "free market" here, where there isn't any real competition for certain things and the main provider does the minimum possible.
The Daily Show historical archive is a superb example of a good user interface for historical content.
Some Blogs
- Go Fug Yourself
- WWdN: In Exile (Wil Wheaton)
- Uncertain Principles
- Crooked Timber
- Official Google Blog
- Wine Library TV
- Slashdot
- waider
- waidesworld
- Making Light
- The Language Hat
- Neil Gaiman
- Whatever: John Scalzi
- Charlie Stross's Diary
- Ken MacLeod
- Dave Langford's Ansible
- Contrary Brin
- Stephen Fry
- Veronica Belmont
- Mahalo
- Merlin Mann
- Kung Fu Grippe
- Jonathan Coulton
- David Gerrold
- Orcinus
- The Sideshow
- Josh Marshall
- Atrios (Eschaton)
- Hullabulloo
- 43 Folders
- Wis[s]e Words: Ceci n'est pas un blog
- Wil Harris
- Boing Boing
- Engadget
- Gizmodo
- LifeHacker
- The Poor Man
- Creative Commons
Environental Sites
Apple News and blogs
- Apple Hot News
- Apple Phone Show
- Mac Rumors
- Andy Ihnatko
- TUAW
- MacRumors
- Apple Insider
- Fake Steve Jobs
- Erica Sadun iPhone developer
- ZiPhone Zibri's iPhone unlocker
- Mac OS X Hints
- 9 to 5 Mac
- MacWorld
Linux News
Photography News and blogs
- DPReview
- Photo.net
- This Week in Photography
- Strobist (flash photography)
- Stuck In Customs (HDR)
- Pentax
- Pentax Support
- The Gimp
- Photomatix
News and Politics
- Google News
- BBC News
- South China Morning Post
- HK Standard
- UK Guardian
- Your Yahoo!
- WhiteHouse.org
- Christian Science Monitor
- The Onion (Even better than the real thing!)
Podcasts
- TWiT.tv
- MacBreak Weekly
- This Week in Tech
- FLOSS Weekly
- Pixel Corps
- Podango
- TekZilla
- Command-N
- Mahalo Daily
Web Comics
- User Friendly by Illiad
- Sheldon by Dave Kellett
- Dilbert by Scott Adams
- Doonesbury by Trudeau
- Everyone Loves Eric Raymond
- XKCD by Randall
- The Joy of Tech comic by nitrozac
- PVP Online by Scott Kurtz
- Real Life by Greg Dean
- Questionable Content
- Mega Tokyo
- WonderMark by David Maliki
- Girl Genious
- Penny Arcade by Gabe and Tycho
- NASA astronomy picture of the day
- The World of Lily Wong
- Hi Jinks Ensue
- Three Panel Soul
- Girls With Slingshots
- Ann Telnaes
- Joel Pett
- Tom Toles
- Pat Oliphant
- Ted Rall
About Me
- about me
- odaiwai's shared items
- odaiwai on twitter
- odaiwai on youtube
- odaiwai on flickr
- odaiwai on del.icio.us
- odaiwai on blogspot
- odaiwai on livejournal
- SARS Statistics
- Site Statistics
- hong kong weather
- phpsysinfo
- dave's wibblings (feedburner)
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