Today in History
One year ago, I was tooling around Paris. In 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed while attempting to incite revolution in Bolivia. More events
IE Complacency
Count me in this group of developers who wish Microsoft would fix their broken Internet Explorer. I also wish all you people out there still running IE 5.5 would upgrade too! But Zeldman warned against wishful thinking, noting that with hundreds of millions of people using Internet Explorer around the world, it would take more
Yahoo Search Feeds
Jeremy Zawodny has a piece on new, custom Yahoo Search Feeds. This looks great not only for tracking high profile issues lots of people are interested in, but also for digging up news you might not otherwise find. However, looks like if there are no results, instead of getting an empty feed you get a
MLS future looking brighter
As a DC United and MLS fan, I was pretty worried about the league two years ago when it decided to contract its 2 Florida based teams. It’s incredible how things have changed since then! The year we had another soccer-specific stadium openened in LA, another breaking ground in Dallas, and plans for the same
Essential software for your home linux lan
I’ve just finished upgrading my sister’s pc, which we use to share a dial-up connection, to Mandrake 9.1. ( Yes-dialup, I’m 2 miles from AOL’s headquarters and the closest to broadband that I can get is wireless or satellite.) I can’t say that the install was a piece of cake – the installer crashed on
Using syndication as content life support
Just a few weeks ago, I dedicated some time to updating and upgrading my bolivian soccer news site which I’d neglected since March. Well, back in March i decided to start scraping the news section from some fo the online, Bolivian newspapers and linking to the stories on the right. After my redesign, I checked
Arcade Cabinet Pictures
The arcade cabinet frame put together after the first weekend of cutting the panels and 2x2s. A peek through the door on the front at the PC powering the whole thing. Its my old Athlon-400 that got me through grad school. A look at the top half of the cabinet. I need to make a
Choosing a Linux NIC
Interesting summary of what to look for in a linux NIC beyond the price is here. I wish I’d looked at that earlier. I’m currently installing Mandrake 9.1 on my sister’s PC. Because her CD drive wouldn’t read the Mandrake iso’s I’d burned, I ended up having to do a net install from my PC
Analog and DNS resolution performance
At work, we use Analog and Report Magic to produce nightly stats reports for the sites we host. We’d grown use to the fact that the runs on our older production machine told almost half a day to finish. Their are a lot of sites to process, logfiles get pretty big and are gzipped, and
WMDs MIA
Scott Rosenberg: WMDs: Must be here somewhere! For anyone else who is still patiently waiting to see what might turn up in the WMD hunt, the news today was not good. Someone leaked to the New York Times information about a draft of the report (now dubbed an "interim" report) by David Kay, the former