This is rapidly becoming one of my pet peeves, right up there with misuse of the word “literally”:
This thing I’m writing right now? This single entry in my blog? This isn’t “a blog”. It’s “an entry” or “a post”.
Sort of like that piece of paper in a book is a page, not a book.
“Writing a [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2009
A “Blog” Is a Whole Bunch of Posts
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 – 2:13 pm
How Many Ways Is Your Imitation Scrollbar Broken?
Sunday, December 13th, 2009 – 1:25 pm
If you’re going to reinvent the wheel, you should at least make sure your new version is somehow better than the previous kind. Reimplementing standard UI and OS widgets is one of the most common ways developers reinvent the wheel these days — it started with Flash developers building their own controls, and has now spread [...]
Does Wanting Privacy Make You Evil?
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 – 4:37 pm
According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.” This is the same stupid excuse we always hear from people who want to invade everyone’s privacy, and I’m sick of it.
Incidentally, we need a good term for [...]