Sat 30 Oct 2010 – 10:11:38
(Because I’d rather rant on my blog than call Customer Service, that’s why.) Expected behavior: The ability to select any date from October 30 to January 28 (i.e., the earliest to latest allowed dates) via the month and day drop-downs when changing account reactivation date. Actual behavior: Was unable to select January 28, 2011 (the [...]
Wed 10 Mar 2010 – 13:13:44
WorldCat is now permanently redirecting straightforward, hackable identifier-based URIs, to new, absurdly long canonical URIs . This means that a link to something like: http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9780060817084 now becomes: http://www.worldcat.org/title/marley-me-life-and-love-with-the-worlds-worst-dog/oclc/58431841 Besides being longer and uglier, the new canonical URI forces a loss in semantic precision. It’s no longer sensible for me to reference multiple editions of the [...]
Thu 27 Aug 2009 – 15:06:20
Emily Short has an interesting post charting the “whole gory evolution [...] of my implementation strategy”. Useful comments follow about the more general programming issues, and both Andrew Plotkin and Mike Gentry comment on their own implementation methods. (As it happens, I was in a few of the same undergraduate Classics classes as Emily Short. [...]
Tue 25 Aug 2009 – 00:10:16
Quote of the day: [W]hen you get to the point where you see watching Zombie Lake as some kind of solemn obligation, it’s a circumstance that bears some investigation. That’s Todd of Teleport City, part of the latest roundtable from The B-Masters Cabal. I’ve been reading B-movie reviews from these folks for years—hell, I still [...]
Thu 06 Aug 2009 – 16:02:25
Budd Schulberg (1914–2009). Blake Snyder (1957–2009). John Hughes (1950–2009). Budd Schulberg (On the Waterfront) and Blake Snyder (Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot) were very different writers, but each was a craftsman with a family history in showbiz. (Schulberg was the son of a studio head; Snyder did voice work as a child for his [...]
