Today I was confirming a reservation with Holiday Inn Express and found a unique anti-pattern on their login dialog: instead of including a check box for “remember me”, they have one for the opposite meaning: “do not remember me”. So much for following well-known conventions on the internet!
Having a result on Spoke when searching for your name is a drag. In addition to their reputation for being spammy and intrusive, the data listed is often inaccurate or out of date. To remove your profile from such public searches, their FAQ provides the clue.
The Sprint website has been offline (i.e., unusable) for over 48 hours now as Sprint is launching a new software release. Can’t we do better than that these days?
Christian Heilmann (Yahoo! Evangelist) has created GeoMaker – a great way to learn about Yahoo’s Geo technologies like Placemaker. Here I put GeoMaker to the test with the lyrics from “I’ve Been Everywhere” by Johnny Cash.
Still finding more reasons to play with and learn YQL, and following up from my experiment with random numbers, today I implemented YQL support for lipsum.com, a “Lorem Ipsum” text generator.