wheatblog

personal weblog of James "Wheatbread" Martin

Month: June, 2004

BlogPulse redesigns

Blogdex was down this morning, so I surfed BlogPulse to see what’s up. It had been a while since I last visited. The new look is a definate improvement.

password keepers

Password Safe reminds me of Yaps, which I used to use (and love) on my Palm. Both are apps that let you store your many passwords (with all the relevant info) under one uber-password.

when redesigns go south

I’m a minimalist, but Kottke’s latest redesign bores me to tears (jimformation recently redesigned along similar lines, but note how much better it comes off). Contrast the new Kottke with zeldman‘s recent effort, which may be a little over the top for my tastes but, nevertheless, has some visual interest going.

patent medicine

Some technologies are just too simple to deserve a patent: not that software patents aren’t problematic to begin with. Scripts that create docs for souce code are common. Extending that idea to creating to do lists is not innovative or patent worthy. If the intellectual property lawyers keep it up, we’ll have to pay for [...]

In case you ever need something to read…

I once owned a old copy of the Harvard Classics “Five-Foot Shelf of Books.” Now you can read it at Bartleby.com (along with other great non-fiction, fiction, and poetry).