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. […]
Jason posted a link to an earlier piece of his, The Tragedy Of Barack Obama the same day the Freakonomics podcast asks “It’s Election Day: Can You Really Blame the President?”
While Panels is great for controlling the layout of drupal pages, there are times when you can’t use the module to theme a page. For uncached content, it does introduce some performance overhead into the drupal request change. It can also be tedious to migrate changes from one environment to the other if you don’t
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 don’t think any other player could be a fan favorite both in NY/NJ and in D.C. “I’m sure a lot of Red Bull supporters don’t want to hear this, but I absolutely loved my time in D.C.,” Petke said. “It was such a wild ride, something every player should experience. Having experienced that, I
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