Quick summary. Reg Braithwaite: “Ruby Metaprogramming elevates the Decorator Pattern from a useful tool to a core idiom for creating idioms.”
Fleeting logins. Zephoria on ephemeral profiles: “Teens are not dreaming of portability (like so many adults i meet). They are happy to make new accounts on new sites; they enjoy building out profiles. (Part of this could be that they have a lot more time on their hands.) The idea of taking MySpace material to Facebook when they transition is completely foreign. They’re going to a new site, they want to start over.” Check out the comments on this article as well.
Where does online identity fit in my life? Labnotes has become my 401K blog, a long term investment I’m not going to give up on easily. My Flickr account is more like my digital camera: I might get a new one, and throw the old one away. This is not so much about adult/teen divide, though I have to admit, I wasn’t serious about 401K until late into my twenties. Just a point to consider when you’re thinking about the role Web presence plays in other people’s life. They’re not all as invester or dis-interested as you. (Via Chris Messina)
OpenID with your Yahoo! account. Simon Willison is blogging about OpenID, and building cool stuff He just launched idproxy.net, so you can sign to OpenID services with your Yahoo! account. I love it.
WP 2.1. It looked like a good idea, but the WYSIWYG editor in WP 2.0 messed up with my markup, whenever I tried anything tricky. WP 2.1 finally fixes that and lets you use WYSIWYG and raw HTML side by side. Along with auto-save. Unfortunately, I can’t get the TinyMCE tables plugin to work. Hopefully that will happen in due time.
Music to my ears. Find it through Pandora, buy it from eMusic. That just made my day.