Bookmarks for October 10th through October 15th

• Terminally Incoherent » Blog Archive » Apostrophe in the Email Address? – "This could have been easily avoided if certain IT department simply had a policy which said “only dots and alphanumeric ASCII characters in usernames”. And not just because certain email packages may not support all the different addressing formats as specified in the RFC. It’s also because everyone thinks they know how to validate emails but they don’t. Half the validation scripts out there is just plain wrong. You actually need a 6.4K regular expression to cover all the different addressing schemes covered by the RFC."
• Jason Fried of 37Signals on Business, Focus, and Avoiding Interruption – O'Reilly Broadcast – Interview with Jason Fried of 37signals about the things they do differently that make them productive. My favorite quote from this interview: "A lot of times I think companies confuse enthusiasm with priority quite a bit, especially when it comes to new technologies. They're really enthused about them so they do them but they're not really high priority."
• How Hard Could It Be?: Sins of Commissions, Marketing and Advertising Article – Inc. Article – Joel on incentive programs and people who game them. Good read.
• Google chrome:Application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005) | Browsers & Hacks – Instructions on getting Google Chrome to work on stubborn, old, corporate hardware.

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