Nokia’s N770 and N800 tablet PCs were developed with a conscious decision to use as much open source software as feasible. This decision had tremendous benefits in cost savings, code quality, flexibilty, and zero licensing costs. You can read the white paper HT: Stephesblog. If we compare the code from open source to the […]
Some people like fully justified text. I guess it brings another layer of perceived order to an otherwise chaotic universe. If you choose to implement it on a web page, be warned that legibility suffers due to the crude justification algorithms implemented in browsers. But even with sophisticated page layout software, justified text blocks often
MLS had to pay to be on ESPN2 for so many years, because that’s what gets and keeps you on the general sport fan’s radar. On the other end of th spectrum, the NHL refused a revenue-sharing agreement, one without a big fat rights fee, with ESPN last year and chose to go to the
Its good to read that the UK Goverment sees no place for the chicanery that is Intelligent Design in its school’s science curriculum. It has also defined "Intelligent Design", the idea that life is too complex to have arisen without the guiding hand of a greater intelligence, as a religion, along with "creationism".
Umm, seriously, a pool with a water slide? Why do public pools feel the need to compete with pools from homeowner associations? If theres no demand for public pools, that money would be better spent elsewhere, like in schools, police, fire. Or better yet, by lowering taxes. A $2 million renovation, dedicated yesterday, is part
As much as we’d like to bash Microsoft, or whatever software vendor is affected by exploits, the truth is that user behavior also contributes to the poor security on some machines. Jeff Atwood details his own experience with a PC that was infected because he surfed 1 website with an old version of IE6. I
If you need help with *nix stuff, and who doesn’t, then my friend Mike’s site is worth bookmarking and/or adding to your feed aggregator: Tip o’the Day.
I just added gravatar support to my blog, via the excellent and well documented gravatar-cache script. If you register for one, your icon will show up along with comments that you leave here. Do you need more incentive than that? I’ll write a post full of praise for the first five people to leave a
I’ve been revamping my Bolivian soccer blog, which I finally updated and made live tonight. In doing so, I needed to convert the data from ISO-8859-1 (back when I didn’t know better about how to setup a database) to UTF-8. I was fearing the process would be complicated and tedious, involving some script to read
Major League Soccer and Major League Baseball are not just at the opposite ends of the alphabet, but also in embracing digital media. In this day and age, fans don’t want to be tied to watching anything, even a soccer match or baseball game, by place or time. Baseball is one of the big three