Readers, I’ve about had it with Bloglines, a site that seems to be experiencing scalability issues. Half the feeds I subscribe to are broken these days. Who knows about a good, reliable web-based RSS/Atom feed aggregator (other than Bloglines)? It has to be web-based (i.e. not an application that runs on my computer, not a [...]
Gordo put up an excellent post about Ben Stein’s foolish War on Science. I was curious to see if any of Ben Stein’s mawkish, lugubrious American Spectator columns were available on the Internet. I haven’t read that magazine since the late 1990s, but I remember Ben Stein used to have a pathetic column in which [...]
I toyed with the idea of learning a functional programming language before. It’s good to see that toying often eventually leads to doing, as has been the case with Swedish. Some things that eventually prompted me to pursue FP more were an excellent article on the subject and personal experience with tedious maintenance of state [...]
If you’re running WordPress 2.1.1, you should immediately upgrade to 2.1.2. A security exploit took place several days ago, in which the 2.1.1 download package was tampered with… They modified two files in WP to include code that would allow for remote PHP execution. This is the kind of thing you pray never happens, but [...]
If you copy YouTube’s code to embed a YouTube video in one of your blog posts, your page will not pass validation as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. This is because YouTube’s code contains the deprecated <embed> tag. If such validation matters to you, Bernie Zimmermann will show you the way to embed a YouTube video in [...]
Remember the city manager who made a fool of himself by insisting his computers had been “hacked”? He’s as truculent as ever: “This is just a bunch of freaks out there that don’t have anything better to do,” he said. “When I came in to work Monday morning, I had about 500 e-mails, plus anonymous [...]
This humorous story is making the rounds of the Internet: A very unfortunate man, the city manager of Tuttle, OK, made a complete fool of himself over the course of a simple misunderstanding when the city’s website went down. These two quotes, in combination, will haunt the poor fellow for the rest of his life: [...]
Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy is openly proposing the idea of merging Sun’s operating system (Solaris) with HP’s brand of Unix (HP-UX). I’ll go ahead and admit it, readers: this idea excites me. From a business standpoint, I have no idea if this idea makes sense or not. Who cares? From a technical standpoint, I [...]
For the first time since IDC began tracking the server-OS market in 1996, Windows has surpassed Unix as the top-selling server operating system ($17.7 billion to $17.5 billion). (via Slashdot)
If you’re a fan of del.icio.us and you use Mozilla Firefox, you ought to check out the del.icio.us Firefox extension, which integrates your social bookmark manager right into your web browser. That’s good stuff, readers.
