So, if you have a “feedback” text field in a web form that you’d like to limit to a certain number of characters, but you neither provide any warning whatsoever nor implement some sort of tech solution to automatically limit things, don’t you think just maybe that will piss off someone who’s just written a a very nice letter of thanks to you, but with 300 too many characters?
From the somewhat defunct AAlgar Electronics website (I designed the iTari images):
Almost twenty years ago, the Atari 2600 was born. Since then, tens of millions of people have discovered it’s the cheapest, easiest way to your favorite video games without the hassle of going to the arcade.
What could follow the world’s most popular home gaming console? A completely new iTari, redesigned from top to bottom, inside and out—and available in a variety of designer colors.
A 1972 documentary on ARPAnet, the precursor of today’s internet.
I just wanted to make note, today was the day I coined the term “podroll” for your list of links to podcasts, playing off the previous term “blogroll.” Y’know, just in case I’m actually the first. 😉
UPDATE
Okay, looks like I’m about a month or so late. But at least I came up with it independently. 😛
So, yay! —upgraded to WordPress 2.0. Expecting the minions of hell to overrun my system any time now, but for the moment, it feels good, it feels clean. I hope the spammers aren’t drawn to its scent. Colophon’s screwed up, but… Meh. I’ll fix it at some point. It’s probably not even accurate anymore.
Soon after I had plugged in my brand new MacBook Pro, it died. Sorta. Film at 11.
UPDATE
As best we can piece it together, what happened was this: Thursday morning, when I first plugged in the MagSafe connector from the power adapter, it went from green to red, not amber like I thought. I […]
