Jon ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch posted a fun essay about his need to “iron out” mistakes that are made in his financial favor. I’m delighted by the analysis – especially the deduction that such corrections are ethical exercises: small quizzes that keep your everyday moral compass in shape for the inevitably bigger challenges that are bound to […]

WebnoteHappy is a desktop bookmark management tool from Happy Apps. Author Luis de la Rosa has focused on making it easy to quickly add bookmarks from any browser, and give them a text note and tags if desired. The application also makes it easy to import and export a variety of formats. I haven’t used […]

John Gruber is annoyed by the simultaneous use of “Web Kit” and “WebKit” when ostensibly referring to the same thing. While his complaint boils down to allegations of editorial laziness, there may be a more benign cause. In any case his post opens up a can of very interesting worms. I think the confusion comes […]

What is the difference between FREE, Free, and free? You’ll rarely see the lower-cased version in marketing, rarely see the all-caps one in prose, and the one in the middle is downright tricky. There is such a plethora of meanings and implications associated with this common word, that it may be due the same awe-inspired […]