July 2005
DC United Mid-Term report Card
United get’s a midseason report from Steven Goff at the Washington Post . There’s nothing that you haven’t already seen on BigSoccer but a good catch up if you haven’t been slacking off at work. Of late, United has been plagued by injury – first Eskandarian, now Moreno, Steven Guppy and Brian Namoff are all
An explanation of the canine exhibition here
Yesterday I hacked together a quick script that lets me send photos to my blog and used these pictures to test it. Its real secure too – please don’t guess my secret email address for it – its not too obvious actually – but obscurity is no substitue for real security. You do have to
Flipbook!
An awesome flash application that lets you build a simple flipbook like animation one frame at a time. Part of the charm is the simplicity of it all, you can draw in black and white, there are no colors or erasing short of erasing the whole frame. Here’s a quick doodle of a simple castle
GlobalGiving featured in washington post
Steven Pearlstein’s column describes GlobalGiving, which is looking to hook up small donors with international aid projects. Interesting numbers, they’be raised $1.5M from 2000 donors, that’s about $750 per donor. It’s also a great example of the wisdom that’s in crowds: On its Web site, GlobalGiving provided brief descriptions of 112 development projects, asking site
the London attacks
…not much to say that hasn’t already been said… In a free society, you can’t safeguard against every terrorist attack by a determined aggressor. The alternatives, totalitarianism and loss of freedom, are worse. We’ll never know how many attacks are thwarted or know the effectivenees of anti-terrorist strategies – real security strategies, not made up
Two useful Mac apps
Found two very useful Mac applications yesterday that I wanted to pass along: JHymn strips the DRM from iTunes Store files (without needing an iPod to unencrypt the files). I was annoyed that 2 song’s I’d purchased and put on my iPod wouldn’t play at work, where I use a Linux desktop. All the MP3’s