Hoping to test out the latest beta of Mozilla’s Mobile Firefox but have a myTouch 3G? You may be out of luck, while the official builds don’t support the chip in the device, there is an Arm 6 build which is listed as compatible. I downloaded it and tried to install it, but it wouldn’t install either, […]
Here’s a sign of hope that thinking rationally may end up helping us solve a number of problems. Last night saw a TV programme in the UK called What the Green Movement Got Wrong, in which various greens admitted that they had done terrible harm by opposing nuclear power and GM food and indoor DDT.
I'm testing using Disqus for commenting here. Drupal's core comment module is adequate but Disqus provides a number of features, particluarly integration with Facebook and Twitter, that would require more work otherwise. There's even a Disqus module that integrates the plugin as a block. While it doesn't integrate with Mollom, it does integrate with Akismet,
We've done a number of energy-efficiency projects at our house over the last year. While it may help us lowering our own energy costs and usage, it'd be naive to think that it'll decrease overall energy consumption. Harry Saunders has done the research to explain this effect, know as "the rebound effect". Varying degrees of
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More amusement from Craiglist job postings. Hmm, which of these technologies could you seriously have 10 to 15 years of experience with? Fifteen years ago, I was still an undergraduate in college, Amazon did not exists, and EC2/AWS certainly didn't and Java was still a wanna-be Flash plugin for your Browser. The ideal candidate will
If you're involved in designing, developing, supporting, working with, changing, upgrading, or selecting some sort of content management system, you owe it to yourself to read this article and heed its advice. A good content model is important to make a system useful to the intended users. A good content model also has to be
I've become quite dependent on simple paper checklists for getting work done. As an aside, I've started looking at Google's integrated Tasks list and it looks like a nice, feature-light alternative to paper todo lists. Below is an example of the checklist I used when moving some new features to our staging server. It doesn't
Internet Explorer has a well know bug limiting the number of stylesheets that in can load, see here. This introduces an inconvenient hassle when it comes time to test CSS updates on a Drupal site. You have to remember to go to the performance page and enable CSS preprocessing to get the number of files
The labor market has to be the overwhelming factor, I have to think. Another way to reduce illegal immigration would be to make it faster, easier to migrate legally. Despite what anti-immigrantion activists want us to believe, there's no "back-of-the-line" to get your papers, so until we reform that process, people will be forced to
Awesome, now you can watch your Netflix Instant Queue on an iPhone or iPod touch. Pretty soon, many people won't need broadcast television at all. Netflix launched an iPad app months ago that lets users stream movies and TV shows over WiFi or 3G connections. Now you can do the same on an iPhone or
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