I’m a bit sad to hear that Michael Vale, the Dunkin’ Donuts baker from the 80s passed away today. His commercials were certainly memorable, enough that Staci still will occasionally try wake me up by saying “It’s time to make the doughnuts!”. Kudos, also to CNN for their solemn and classy headline: Death of a […]
Ok, its stuff like this that’s a real knock against linux being ready for the desktop. Since I’ve upgraded gnome recently, automounting of usb devices has stopped working. This is annoying, although livable. Today I found a fix, if you’re running debian with gnome and gnome-volume-manager still doesn’t display usb drives on your desktop when
A judge has ruled that so-called “intelligent design” can not be mentioned as an alternative to the theory of evolution in public school biology classes. He agreed that the motivations of the school board members who instituted the policy were religious and amounted to nothing more than a repackaging of creationism. No doubt, Dover may
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Performancing has released what looks to be a cool Firefox extension that makes it easy to update your blog using the browser and a client-side WYSIWYG editor. If you’ve got a wordpress, movabletype, or blogger blog, it’s worth checking out. Now, I’ve got to implement an xml-rpc service so that I can use this.
That’s right, Major League Soccer has relocated the San Jose Earthquakes to Houston. Damn, his time, its personal. Ok, maybe not that bad, but I had a soft spot for the quakes since a lot of my friends live in the bay area and, no less important, I met Staci out there. The cynic in
If you don’t have access to cron on your server, but you want to run some php code periodically, this is a handy way of doing that using output caching and the date function. This assumes you’ll be using PEAR’s Cache module. Here’s the code, and and explanation. require_once( ‘Cache/Output.php’ );$cache = new Cache_output(‘file’, array(‘cache_dir’=>CACHE_DIR));$cache_id
Steve Goff did his latest chat on the washington post site yesterday. One of the questions, criticizing the playoff format states: Last year’s conference finals game at RFK against New England was the most entertaining MLS game I ever attended, and would not have been played under the new format as it was the second
When I scan through my aggregator, I don’t expect to ask my self “My sister is blogging about porn?” 😉
Fascinating how the seemingly little decisions can make a crucial difference. But you also can’t agonize and try to get everything perfect from the get go. This guy had $13 million to build a del.icio.us like service 5 years ago and it failed. Now, he’s sharing what he’s learned. I dont think it was that