antitrust

What's good for business is a centralized standard format which makes it easy for consumers to browse without thinking.

What's good for the net is the opposite, which is the kind of decentralized it-just-routes-around system that the internet was designed to be in the first place.

To my chagrin, most of my clients, friends and family prefer the standardized and sanitized sites like Facebook, Wikipedia, *.google.com, Reddit and Digg.

I miss the anarchy days, when every site was a random gesture thrown up by someone possessed of the spirit of an idea or a plan, and not all websites were standardized web apps that are just too "perfect" to be fun, or to permit evolution.

/off my lawn

Should you enter your real information on any internet site? It's kind of like when stores ask for your phone number: there's no real obligation to them to not use it for spam or re-sell it. I always give a fake and ask them to email.

They seem unstable. I'd bug them too!

> I remember 3am on our first Christmas eve, staring down an inbox full of customers who hadn't received their orders, knowing each one was a gift that would go unfulfilled.

How did this error come about? I'd love to see the management debugging trail on this frequently repeated problem with smaller companies.

Craig: legal team, take care of any violations.

Legal team: Hmm -- we get paid for anything we find. Let's widen the scope a little bit...

Looks like proof of concept to me. The test in my mind is what gets done with those 114k addresses. Did they get leaked? No -- and the company was notified of the breech? No harm, no foul.

Basically, I need to make all of my technological tools out of raw steel, silicon and wood and then I'll be OK, but otherwise, somebody's monitoring me. Right?

* sigh *

Well, if I must...

Both web sites look generic to me.