The sincerest form of flattery
AOL is testing a new homepage design, but a close comparison of a competeing portal will reveal just how much inspiration is necessary to kick AOL into a design update. Not that I particualarly love the new Yahoo portal design, but it's still a little better than what came before. And probably one of the most worthy solutions to the intentional information overload on those sites.
Speaking of big media companies redesigning their sites. Apparently MTV redesigned their site and launched yesterday, resulting in an immediate service outage. The big story in this though is that MTV had just launched a brand new all flash based site last year. Heavy use of flash seemingly makes sense for what people expect from the MTV brand (loud, active, lots of video). I never visited their site before, but I just find it interesting that they so thoroughly decided to throw a curveball at their users and switch back to a HTML site. You cant please everyone, especially when you are a big name online destination, but seriously, that's a pretty good problem to have.
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sirtimbly on 04/27/2007 at 09:04 AM
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Flex Builder 2
Honestly, who was the genious at Adobe/Macromedia who decided to build the Flex Builder 2 IDE on a Java Application (Eclipse). Has anyone ever had a good experience with a Java based IDE on any platform? I love coding in an IDE, the debugger is the single greatest thing ever. But, having the program crash all the time, and have it become permanently inoperable after the latest crash has just made me wonder why they didn't take the time to create a tool for developers that was actually usable. I mean it's mainly just a text-editor, why was it necessary to put me through the torture of running my IDE in a JVM!?
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sirtimbly on 04/19/2007 at 02:04 PM
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Studying the energy balance at the poles…
This one is more of a documentary about the man and the process, but it reveals some interesting facts about the study of global climate change. All I can say is that the entire issue of global warming is debated, digested, and decided by people who rarely realized just how big and complex the world's climate system is. Sometimes a complex system can have one weaknes that will bring the entire thing down. And sometimes a complex system can have so many different elastic aspects that they may cancel each other out in the end. Also these factors we look at for our clues to the future simply may not be relevant to the problem we think we face. Personally, I doubt that the world we were given is not resilient enough to handle the changes we can induce. But, I sincerely doubt I have the knowledge necessary to make any qualified judgements.
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sirtimbly on 04/09/2007 at 01:04 PM
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