langreiter.com plain, simple: 2007-04-24

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2007-04-24

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"mum don't cry; they are only pearls"

2007-04-24-tone

"If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys."

2007-04-24-moneyMonkey

James Clark on JSON and XML.

"When you look at the bang for the buck provided by XML and compare it with JSON, XML does not look good."

Balanced; well worth a read. Thanks to Heinz for the heads-up regarding James Clark's weblog.

2007-04-24-jj

A couple of simple things live.com might want to get right (should they ever intend to provide a competitive service; something I'm not particularly convinced of given the exhibited attention to detail [or rather, lack of]).

a. If I click on "Search only", remember that setting and don't expose me to 1997-style portal hell (or a 2007-style Google Personalized ~~Horoscope~~ Homepage proto-hell) every time I visit the site.

b. Why not make that "Live Search" header a link? Not so hard.

c. If you offer me a "FREE toolbar for better protection against scams and virus" (sic), don't do it in the form of a Windows executable, lest I might come to view you as a scam too. Or virus. You know, it's not so hard either.

In related news, you can now test-drive a new Google design.

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