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I may have to promote the Wii back up from its basement exile, and maybe cut back our Netflix plan a bit.   Nintendo is bringing Netflix’s online streaming video service to its Wii gaming console, the most popular in the industry, the companies plan to announce Wednesday. The service lets subscribers choose from a […]

The short version is that I now know way too much Drupal for my own well being.  patch in #9 didn't work for me. I don't think you can simply manipulate the array you get from drupal_add_js() and drupal_add_css() and expect your changes to persist through later preprocess functions. Those two functions keep an internal

This gives me pause in considering the Nexus as my next phone … cancel early and you may pay more than the phone is worth. In such a climate, introducing a hot new phone with a set of combined fees that can actually be more expensive than the unsubsidized device itself might seem to be

If you're a Firefox user and your browser has lost that speedy feeling, check out this extension. I installed and ran it to tune Firefox's databases and, so far, its noticeable more responsive. Vacuum Places Improved :: Add-ons for Firefox

Having solved all of Bolivia's own problems, Morales will now turn to fixing the planet. There aren't two sides to the issue; there are at least two hundred. Environmentalists, pro-green energy businesses, anti-green energy interests, climate skeptics, and neoconservatives have already organized backers to articulate points of view. Now Morales wants to be the spokesperson

My two cents … Once upon a time, I believed in the theory that logic and evidence influenced public policy. After experience rudely contradicted this thesis, I switched to Theory No. 2: Political incentives cause public officials to say things inconsistent with logic and evidence — babble.

The Nexus phone is an intriguing announcments, moreso for me since it'll be available through T-Mobile.  I've been very happy with T-Mobile, so switching carriers to get any other phone, no matter what vowel it's name starts with, has been a no-starter with me. Rather than doing a typical review of its features -– frankly

Should some players start learing Vietnamese just in case there is a work stoppage this offseason? More seriously, this is a great interview with a lot of details soccer fans don't normally get to read. I wouldn’t really tell a lot of guys that Vietnam would be a #1 destination for footballers, but if you

If you're looking to build your own style plugins for Drupal's Panels module, the following post will step you through how to do so. The functions and files you'll need to declare are a bit arcane and this beats stepping through the panels code yourself.  I've found the rounded corners plugin that ships with panels

Please ignore this post, which makes the utterly ridiculous recommendation that customers should care about what tools developers use in their work.  Programming is such an individualized task that what works for one person will not necessarily work for someone else.   That's why, when talking about tools, I like to describe why *I* like