Archives for September 2002
Today I decided I was never going to get around to stopping at a store and so I bought paper towels online. No, that’s not a typo, you read correctly.
Also, I took the dog to the groomers. Just like those late night television infomercials for toothpaste, he’s now “four shades whiter!” However, […]
Ever since upgrading to OSX 10.2.1, I’ve noticed an error message appearing whenever I remotely login to my Powerbook. I duplicated it here by using the login command.
[kaffe:~] matthew% login matthew
Password:
Last login: Mon Sep 23 17:19:38 from ross.cat.nyu.edu
Shall we play a game?
tcsh: Cannot open /etc/termcap.
tcsh: using dumb terminal settings.
[kaffe:~] matthew%
Anyone know why this is […]
When I was in college, I wrote an op-ed entitled Saving Starbucks from America. My point was that, asides from their over-roasted coffee, Starbucks was falsely accused of nearly everything thrown at it by its (often pretentious pseudo-hipster-poseur) detractors.
Now, a new study cited in today’s Wall Street Journal offers further evidence to the contrary […]
I have a friend who works in one of those wacky “new economy” companies where they have children’s toys all over the office–including a rather extensive collection of plastic dinosaurs (usually engaged in a staged battle against civil war figurines) and a life-size spiderman inflatable hanging from the ceiling. So when I saw Hubzilla, […]
I spent the better part of the of the weekend reviewing the documents on the W3C.org Design Issues site (I was doing YMTR: ‘yet more thesis research’). They’re a good read for anyone interested in the big picture issues of the web, despite many of the documents ‘perpetually unfinished’ nature. Don’t just read […]
News for the nerds today: a BugTraq post details a way in which a local unprivileged user on a OSX machine can overwrite any file on the hard disk by using NetInfo Manager.
…if the user runs “NetInfo Manager” and chooses to print the window content by choosing “Domain: Print”, the Print dialog is running […]
I added a link to this weblog from my homepage. I wonder if any of my friends are just now discovering this blog for the first time.
Matthew Rothenberg is a social technologist at Yahoo!, now doing product strategy and management on the Flickr team. A New York City expatriate, he is currently slumming it in the SF Bay Area. For more info, visit his homepage.