You would think something named “Domain Name Registration” would be boring service that the overwhelming majority of Internet users need not think about. However, GoDaddy thinks that may not be good for business, and their latest media blitz has caused me to rethink how I spend my money. I must confess I tolerated their titillating […]
Slate provides a levelheaded assessment about nuclear reactor risk and safety lessons from the crisis in Japan. I hope, once the situation is resolved, we can still look at nuclear power objectively in the USA. To head off the next nuclear accident, we need to rethink the parameters of plant design. Why do we build
Russ Roberts has good advice for anyone who wants to earn a decent living. You want negotiating power? Get educated. Get a skill. What keeps wages up in a world of 7% unionization in the private sector is that I have alternatives. So stay in school and study something serious that has value alongside
Dropbox is a handy service to automatically synchronize files between different computers. Each computer requires a client that connects to the service and monitors the dropbox folder for changes. It’s free for up to 2GB of storage and works well. One of the cool things about Dropbox, is that they provide a native linux client
Interesting persepective, is this another way of saying “Release early, release often”? This stands to reason: our nontechnical people are having discussions and debates while Zuckerberg is coding his next feature. This is why no one has been able to keep up with Facebook! LAUNCH002: What I Learned from Zuckerberg’s Mistakes – Blog – LAUNCH
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I posted a comment over at Five community challenges for design in Drupal 7 & beyond. It is awaiting moderation but here it is in case it doesn’t get approved. @Mathieu – saying that coding is fundamentally about rolling out features and bug fixes is like saying that design is rolling out sizing boxes and picking
So, it turns out that the study linking Vaccines to Autism was an outright fraud. This outcome has been a long-time coming, as the original study was retracted almost a year ago and in May the researcher behind the study was stripped of his medical license. I’m troubled that it took so long to discover,
Don’t follow the advice posted below to “optimize” your site based on the user agent string. The author suggests doing so in the page.tpl.php for your theme. However, this means you can NEVER turn caching on for your site. Also, the uses ereg functions to “detect” the device. These functions are now deprecated by PHP,
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While its hard to read the press release from the World Health organization below and make any sense of the tortured language, it basically says that while food is the main source of BPA exposure, the science as to its effects is inconclusive. Also, BPA is eliminated from the body rather quickly. Was it a
I’m working on a mobile web site and one of the things that can be done to make it more usable is to make targets larger, so that user’s don’t have to be as accurate to trigger an event. It is an application of Fitt’s Law. In this case, I was trying to make the
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