If a service with an allegedly global audience, say one run by Yahoo or by Google has some scheduled downtime, they always give the time when it will be back, or the time when it went down, in PST. Now I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t give a flying fig about...

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ETech 2006 has kicked off and of the presentations I’ve looked at so far today, two have stood out in particular: Simon Willison’s A (Re)-Introduction to JavaScript should be compulsory reading for every single person doing JavaScript as part of their job. It covers almost every aspect of the language I can think of, and doe...

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From the comment by Jake Tracey on Flickr signup: From human to droid in a Yahoo moment?. What Yahoo! doesn’t understand is that no one wants to join them anymore. Do people still fill in massive sign-up forms like...

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On Saturday 24th September Yahoo upgraded their messenger service, meaning (afaik) that all users had to download the lastest client from the Y! Messenger website. I use Y! IM, but through Jabber. The upgrade broke the transport. There’s now a fix to the transport to work with the new authentication scheme.

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