Archive for April, 2005
April 29th, 2005
Whenever I find a person using the damned awful term “AJAX” to refer to the use of XmlHttpRequest to fetch data asyncronously in a Javascript program, they instantly get +500 idiot points in my mental intelligence map. We do not need yet more pseudo-funny acronyms floating around to describe years old technology.
It serves only to massage the egos of the people talking about it by making them think they’re “on the cutting edge”, when they’ve instead been suckered into a fad/meme that’s been used by professional developers for years. Since the mass marketisation of programming patterns (a good thing), I’m seeing people misuse the terminology far too much (a bad thing). I’ll post on this in more detail later.
April 28th, 2005
Well, continuing comment spam has forced me to put all comments containing any form of link into a moderation queue. In case anyone wants to every post a comment, I will moderate the queue regularly.
The diverse range of comment spam source IPs makes me think this is done via zombie Windows PC’s, so I’ll be reporting the comment spam “beneficiary” from now on. Anyone who pays a company money to advertise their site via spamming needs a serious wake up call.
April 28th, 2005
Well, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne MEP has “replied” to my software patents letter. I don’t think she’ll mind if I quote her verbatim.
“Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne MEP acknowledges with thanks receipt of your letter of 8 April 2005 the contents of which have been noted”
I feel this response was well worth waiting 3 weeks for, and really gets to the heart of the matter. Oh, wait…
April 25th, 2005
On arriving home today, the reply of Nirajan Deva was waiting in my inbox. Finally, a real reply from the Conservatives! Upon reading it, I wish they hadn’t bothered.
The position summary: They fully support the current bill, thought all the amendments by the parliament would make it unworkable, and they will all vote in support of it. The rest of the mail reiterates the standard garbage about how it will “not increase patentability” and “is needed for clarification”. I will be responding with a proper rebuttal at some point in the next few days, but until then, it seems the Conservative party in both the UK and EU is so out of touch with reality as to be entirely pointless.
April 25th, 2005
Just when you thought the Conservatives couldn’t get any more irrelevant, Jame Elles responds telling me exactly the same as Danial Hannan. As expected, no reply from Mr Ashworth. Glad to know their system for more effective representation is working!
What exactly was the point in electing 3 South East MEPs from them again?
