Blogstop: “The last word from the latest post is up for grabs. It’s the acronym for the next.” It’s fun.

This is also not my dog – technically. Mary left for Ireland the day after Zara was brought home from the breeder. What could I do but volunteer to take care of her. She’s not housebroken, she chews everything, and she kept me up all night for a week (Zara, not Mary.) I also couldn’t help falling in love with the little monster.

ZDNet asks that very question. I think it will.

The latest alertbox, [: Information Foraging: Why Google Makes People Leave Your Site Faster]1, claims that “Information foraging is the most important concept to emerge from Human-Computer Interaction research since 1993.” And correctly, in my opinion, states that “…it’s healthy to remember that users are selfish, lazy, and ruthless in applying their cost-benefit analyses.”

Since PHP 5 beta 1 is out, now might be a good time to review the long and interesting [list of new features]1.

“It has been reported that Tanuki fell from the sky using his scrotum as a parachute.” So begins Tom Robbins' new novel, [Villa Incognito]1. My first thought was, “Here we go again!” which is a very good thing.

This is handy. A [list of DTDs]1 all in one spot.

Three days ago I began searching for a better RSS aggregator. Sharpreader was getting goofy on me, RSS Bandit was goofy and wouldn’t let me use the system browser for links and the others were either web-based, which is too slow, or for the wrong platform. I was about to give up when I was reminded of Nick Bradbury’s upcoming FeedDemon. You remember Nick, he’s the guy who originally wrote what is now Homesite and also

I keep preaching the benefits of Mozilla Firebird, and for good reasons. The trouble begins when I actually convince someone to try it. Great! Go to mozilla.org and, oh wait, can’t find a link there. Try the projects page. No link there either? Well there’s always Google. How about mozillafirebird.org? That’s got to work right? Well it doesn’t. Or at least it didn’t until now. I registered mozillafirebird.org .net and .

Over at Tim Bray’s place, he had nearly the same reaction that I did when first being exposed to a wiki. Except [he describes it better than I did]1 “The weird thing about the Wiki work is that successive refactorings appear to produce coherent structure out of chaos via the sum of a lot of independent collective action. Which feels like it ought somehow to

I’ve been watching the [amfphp project]1 pretty closely. It’s basically Flash Remoting via PHP, and open source as well. There has been little word on whether Macromedia was going to give the project any grief over its use of the Action Message Format. There is a new article titled [Connecting Macromedia Flash and PHP]2 whice seems to indicate that they’ll endorse it, at least initially.

Jesus, is there anything left worth reading on slashdot? Remember when it was just news for nerds? It’s become instead the last refuge for socially inept bottom feeders pretending that they matter. Bah.