If you’re using Internet Explorer, or are forced to use it at work, you should seriously consider switching browsers until Microsoft deems it time to release a patch to the latest Internet Explorer security hole. This one is pretty serious as it does not require any action on the user’s part beyond visiting a compromised […]
Via Network-Centric Advocacy, I had a small “aha” moment, from a piece they linked to on AlterNet, Blogging While Black. To me, it resonates with why many communications folks within an organization don’t know what to make of blogging. Being the Communications Director somewhere means your supposed to be crafting , filtering, and controlling the
A Uruguayan woman and an American man are being held after two small hotels were bombed in La Paz. Sounds like the bomb blast are at smaller hotels in the city, in "El Centro" of La Paz, themain downtown area. There are 2 casualties and 4 injuries from the first explosion. The blast, close to
Via the Sports Economist, found a link to this article in the Wall Street Journal about the high demand for World Cup tickets for the USA [subscribers only]. I can’t read the article, but its safe to assume its a mainstream journalist just catching wind of the difficulties those of us who want to follow
The more things change the more they stay the same: Rivalry renewed: D.C. tops Red Bulls. The usual cautions about not taking the pre season as a real indicator of future performance apply here. Still, any time we beat the Metros it’s a good thing. Joe, queue up the “Same old Metros” chants! Jaime Moreno
A revelation hopefully more artists and creative professionals will come to is neatly summed up in this post from Powazek. We’ll only see more of them come to the same conclusions as they learn to fully harness the distribution models provided by the Internet. Singers, Writers, Artists and all no longer need middlemen to market
Bizarre. My self-signed SSL certificate I use to access my email using IMAP over SLL expired last week. The real significance is that we’ve been on this server for one year now. Compared to how painful working on the old Redhat 7.2 install we had back then, working with a Debian system has been a
Jeremy Zawodny steps up to the plate in defense of Web Developers, once again. Writing a good application no matter waht is going to be demanding, it’s just easier to roll something/anything out using php+javascript than with a "real" programming language. In effect, what I see is that php / javascript programming has a much
Subversion is a great replacement for CVS and a very productive tool for managing code. I began using it last year to track my changes and apply them across my sites. The New Yorg PHP group has a really informative and extensive presentation on using SVN, from setting it up to practical tips for using
Over at the Sports Law Blog, they have the schedule for the upcoming Future of Sports Law Symposium at Willamette University College of Law. It sounds like an interesting round up of speakers and topics. I think some MLS teams should send representatives to some of the sessions. Chivas-USA staff might be interested in "Foreign