Darth Tater

Mr. Potato Head if he were a Sith Lord and, of coarse, Luke's father. I'm ordering one as soon as they become available.

Excellent Job ad

If only more recruitment ads would be as detailed, informative, and humorous.

Good luck finding that "morning person".

Music, Movies and Microcode

With appologies for stealing Mr. Stephenson/Hiro's tagline, Paul Graham's latest musing on why "Made in the U.S.A." still means something in software.

Nice quote from Nat

"Gmail and Google Suggest have begun to lift the wool of obstinance from the eyes of the old-school fat client nerds..."—Nat

Sooo true. We used the XMLHttp object for a bunch of query interfaces in a recent project, and it so changes everything.

Interested folks will also want may want to check out the latest version of the WHAT spec and/or the X-Toys library. Warning, if you've never read over a W3Cish spec. before than you'll probably just want to glance at the introduction.