From the monthly archives:

December 2004

Year End Review 2004

December 31, 2004

Year 2004 is a very different year for me. I normally, for privacy reason, not talk too much about my personal life on this blog. However year 2004 has been a very personal year. After waiting a long time, I am now the parent of the smartest, cutest little baby in the world (personal [...]

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American Frame – great use of the interactive web

December 21, 2004

The online picture framing store American Frame show how to use the web to provide a great service. Try out their frame “wizzard” — upload your picture, and build a picture frame, with matting, select colors, change the wall colors to see if they match…. a great use of web technology !

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How to redirect old URL to Movable Type 3.x new archive filenames

December 11, 2004

Movable type 2.x used to, by default, use numeric file names for individual entry archive files. There is a plug in that change that behaviour to use a text file name created from the title of the entry. With Movabletype 3.x, the new style naming is the default.

But what if your old site and file [...]

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Time Travel or United Airlines software bug

December 9, 2004

Today I found a bug on United Airlines Flight status checking software on their website.
It is currently 9 am Thursday Dec 9th on the US east coast, which is where this international flight orginated. Look at the status display from their website that I copied below.

The first part of the flight status is correct. The [...]

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Move to Top

December 6, 2004

Finally, Netflix added a “move to top” button on their rental queue. No more typing in numbers to re-arrange the queue. A very small UI change that does a lot for the user!

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Movabletype 3.1

December 2, 2004

I finally decided to start moving from the old 2.6x Movabletype to the new 3.1x version. I tried it on an internal blog first. I has one problem after the upgrade :
The upgrade somehow overwrote my template files — I link the templates to a text file on disk so that I can edit them [...]

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