We are currently living through a minor sort of plague when it comes to remote editing of PHP-based blogs. As web hosting companies upgrade to PHP 5.2.2, some of you may notice that your attempts to publish or edit entries with MarsEdit yields an error dialog with a cryptic error “XML-Response Parsing Failed.” This bug [...]

One of the things I really enjoy about the UK is the widespread availability of “instant takeaway food.” It’s very easy to find something in a plastic wrapper that is of relatively good quality. By no means should the quality of plastic-wrapped foods be the final measure of a culture, but it sure is nice [...]

Google frustrates me by highlighting in their products some of the best and worst of web usability.

Consider Google Maps, which won me over instantly when I first tried it, almost entirely because of the innovative (then) “drag to scroll” behavior you can rely on whenever you see a Google map.

They won me over with a [...]

Black Ink 1.0.4 includes a number of fixes to the multiple character support of the application. In particular there were major problems with Undo and with revealing answers, when multiple letters were present. Thanks to a dedicated Black Ink user for bringing these problems to my attention!

Anybody who’s solved a lot of crosswords is familiar [...]