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Monthly Archives: March 2008

NIN sales figures, updated

If anyone had any doubts about the success of Nine Inch Nails with their recent Ghosts I-IV release, look no further than a short Wired report on the matter. 1.6 million USD in sales revenue in the first week! Despite, … Continue reading

Some people call me the space cowboy

Today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day was listed in my Google Reader stream today together with a Wired post on Surviving an Avalance. A sign from the web? Some people call me the space cowboy

REST and the HTTP protocol

Excellent clarification from Nathan Sobo about some simple REST principles. REST is great for structuring views in simple GET operations, but it is also very easy to try to shoehorn your whole application into GET-calls to a complicated URL scheme … Continue reading

IE 5.5 beats IE 6 and 7 in test

Sorry about the somewhat sensationalist post title.. It is amusing to note though, that IE 5.5 scores better than IE 6 or 7 in the newly released ACID 3 test. That’s pretty much all it is – amusing – the … Continue reading

SXSW Panel

In light of a lot of news on the browser front recently, I look forward to seeing what comes of this year’s browser discussion at the South by South West festival. Fingers crossed for comments regarding Opera’s recent antitrust complaint … Continue reading

Nine Inch Nails sales

There has been no official sales figures released, but two indicators so far point to a pretty big success for Nine Inch Nails recently released Ghost album online. Firstly, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the Ghosts site went down a while after … Continue reading

MS U-Turn

Via Arstechnica today, under the apt headline “sanity prevails” comes news that Microsoft has changed its stance regarding standards mode in IE 8. IE 8 will now render pages in standards mode by default. Great news. Perhaps it’s the cynic … Continue reading

Nine Inch Nails with new CC album

After a few teaser posts on the Nine Inch Nails blog and a hilarious reply from a fan regarding NIN’s ability to deliver on time, a new album is finally out! It’s called “Ghosts I – IV“, and Trent Reznor … Continue reading