I hope this Home Shopping Network presenter is okay. He’s managed to snap and somehow stab himself with one of those dodgy samurai swords they sell on teevee. Ouch! There’s no gore so enjoy at home or on your lunchbreak :-)

Great ad-lib by the co-presenter too. Champagne television.

I just watched DiG and quite liked the following one-liner from Courtney Taylor-Taylor.

If it’s good, its fun. If it’s bad, it’s funny.

Simple really.

Everyone needs to take a minute or so to see the Miniature Earth.

Sam Gentile has some pretty interesting things to say in his post Being an Agile Architect.

Lots of things are popping in and out of my head about this… too tired to write anything constructive or thought-provoking. Maybe another time.

Amusing OK/Cancel Cartoon.

Myself and a couple friends have been using the del.icio.us for: tag pretty much since they released the feature.

Jeremy Zawodny has just blogged about it and I was thinking about it the other day as well.

While using the firefox plug-in I noticed that one of the for: tags was the biggest in my tag cloud and I was thinking it would be good if the tag would auto-time out after a week.

The reason for this is that most of the things I tag ‘for’ others are temporal and I’m using the for tag as way of giving a quick shout out to friends who may be interested, without actually putting any other tags against the page. The for tag isn’t really of interest to me so I’d rather it not take up so much space in my tag cloud.

I just read Jamie Zawinski’s open letter of resignation from Mozilla.

It’s an interesting and quite a heartfelt piece. DisclosureI may be seeing it that way because I was always a bit of a netscape fanboy. Taking out the tech references to Netscape and the early days of the web, I found it to be a very honest description of the inner torment and self-doubt one can go through when deciding whether or not to continue on with something they’ve been super-commited to for a long time.

A couple of weeks ago I found IT Wire, a pretty decent Aussie tech news site.

Recently, I’ve had a few interesting conversations with colleagues and friends about how hot the contractor market is in Canberra at the moment, An article from today, High-end IT jobs demand spike, suggests the ICT sector is performing pretty well overall.

Let the good times roll :-)

One thing that kind of annoyed me when I switched from Opera to Firefox was that there is only a single ‘close tab’ button that’s displayed off on its own on the right hand side of the tab bar. I much prefered having a close button on each tab.

I’ve been on a bit of a firefox extension binge today and just installed Tab X which is takes care of my closee button gripe. It was created by Stephen Clavering who also has a few other extension that look neat.

A couple weeks back, Eugenio Pace posted a piece about the direction Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices group are planning to take with the UI Process application block.

There’s not a lot of meat in the article, it seems they’re looking to get feedback from implementers and prioritise requests at this point. What’s interesting is some of comments outlining the good and bad of the UIPAB from people who have obviously spent a lot of time with UIP.

Extra: GotDotNet code gallery for UIP.