nowthis' bookmarks on del.icio.us

I'm collecting quick-style-links at del.icio.us now rather than at Furl. Need to come up with a nice way to not only grab these regularly and turn them into posts, but maybe also route them (sidebar vs main blog vs don't-blog) depending on extra indicators I put in.

So far, quite disappointed at the character limit on the Notes field (255), and especially disturbed that the Notes field will silently discard data if you type beyond the limit. Blech. Take a page from Twitter, people.

Still, the entry form is much more to my taste than Furl's. I'll pull down the Furl box at the top soon, and make a habit of pulling the links into blog entries like this one. That way I'm making my own backup as I go, and no one really has to go follow the delicious feed itself.

mine · blog

Flutterby™! : Software hate

I know these feelings exactly...

All I want to do is write the implementation for 3 simple functions ... Should take me 3, maybe 4 hours, tops. I'm nine or ten hours into this mess, learning about crap deep inside Windows that'd make H.P. Lovecraft shudder in terror, I know that once I figure this stuff out I'll have both the "oh, that works" moment and the "I wasted how many hours of my life on...?" feeling of utter despair that accompanies any attempt to develop for Windows.

And I'm just filled with loathing and hate.

windows · programming

non-DRMed iTunes drop from $1.29 to $.99. Good.

apple · itunes · drm

Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

Excerpt from "High Performance Web Sites" by Steve Souders, Chief of Performance for Yahoo!

optimization · webdev · yahoo

Property Worsens: Beginning, Middle or End? /The Big Picture

Commenter:

"All one has to do is look at what the underlying cause is that is applying all the pressure, mortgage resets. Take a look at any chart showing the coming resets and we KNOW we are still only near the beginning. Q1 and Q2'08 are going to be where the pain threshold gets tested as one or more of the mortgage insurers to fails. Not to diminish the pain felt by hundreds of thousands of homeowners to date, but so far, this is nothing. People need to get the fact that we are still in the early part of working our way through the mortgage resets with the most severe months still in front of us."

housing · economy