Mark Pilgrim reports that the Feed Validator (previously called the RSS Validator) has moved to a new location (http://feedvalidator.org/). Apparently the old server location (http://feeds.archive.org/validator/) was experiencing down-time or other problems, so it's been moved to its own server. Validating your RSS feed helps ensure that news readers and aggregators can read your information without trouble.
I just finished reading Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug. This is a frequently-recommended book on web usability and overall I found it a good (quick) read with many common-sense approaches to improving web usability. The author’s writing style makes it an enjoyable read (if there is such a thing for technical books). My only complaint was that the book is relatively short (less than 200 pages) and I found myself wanting more.
StickyC points to a good Mojito recipe today. We just made some for the first time this weekend and they were quite good. I used a recipe from Elton Mohito. I believe the correct spelling of the drink is “Mojito”, which results in many more recipes from Google.
Mike Gunderloy (Larkware) has a good series of articles giving advice for writers. So far there are three installments: Part 1: Writing Articles Part 2: Structuring Articles Part 3: Book Contracts Mike's site is a good resource for Windows development and network information. I subscribe to his full-text RSS feed to keep up-to-date. Update 2003-09-01: Two more parts have been written and a new index page has been created for all of the short articles.
Today the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) released the final report on the cause of the Shuttle accident on 2003-02-01. The press release says in part: The CAIB report concludes that while NASA's present Space Shuttle is not inherently unsafe, a number of mechanical fixes are required to make the Shuttle safer in the short term. The report also concludes that NASA's management system is unsafe to manage the shuttle system beyond the short term and that the agency does not have a strong safety culture. The Board determined that physical and organizational causes played an equal role in the…