Archive for October, 2004
Sunday, October 31st, 2004
Crossing over
I’ve been reading some “alternative” blogs at blogs4God. By alternative, I mean not my usual faire. I’ve been sampling the Journals category and Kathryn Lively’s St. Blog’s. Interesting what you can find when you take the time to try something new.
Phil Younger blogs about shutting down his blog and why he did [...]
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2004
Here’s an example of stupidity in usability. On the pickup window of a
local Burger King drive-thru, there is a small sticker that reads,
Please present coupons before ordering.
First of all, shouldn’t the notice be posted at the point of ordering,
rather than at the point of pickup?
Second, shouldn’t the print be much larger?
On top of all [...]
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2004
Grab bag
GeoNiche 1.33
GeoNiche is a GPS enabled PalmOS program for geocaching, hiking, fishing, bicycling, and other outdoor activities. In addition to a whole host of standard features, GeoNiche includes many features not found in other GPS applications.
MSDN: Introducing the ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts Framework
Summary: Web Parts provide you with the infrastructure for creating customizable Web applications. [...]
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2004
Got Meat? (freshmeat.net)
Syntax Desktop 1.3
Syntax Desktop is a publishing system used to manage the contents of a Web site. It has an attractive GUI with DHTML elements. You can use it to insert news, photos, documents, and tree data structures into your site. It features easy DB backup and style switching.
BTS BugTrack 1.0
BTS BugTrack is a bug [...]
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2004
Slashdot: Whopping-Big Data Theft At U.C.
Berkeleyhttp://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid/10/20/1329217
aceta writes “An intruder penetrated a research computer at
U.C. Berkeley in August and had access to names, social security numbers
and other data for 1.4 million Californians participating in a state
social program. CNET calls it the worst intrusion U.C. Berkeley has
experienced. SecurityFocus additional details: the hacker used a known
vulnerability, and state [...]
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2004
I just upgraded my Linux server’s webmail system to SquirrelMail 1.4.3a.
(http://www.squirrelmail.org/) with surprising ease, all over a VNC
session from my Windows box. Apparently, the new version, as is common
with many release-early-release-often open source projects, fixed a
critical memory leak and some security problems.
It was surprising because starting a tech project late in the evening
after work [...]
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Monday, October 18th, 2004
Tivo is starting to get on my nerves
I’m beginning to loathe my TiVo. Maybe loathe is a strong word. It sucks my time away. I can record an unseemly amount of shows that I have no time to watch. If I try to follow any of them, I have no time for the richer things in life, like [...]
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Tuesday, October 12th, 2004
Do I have to have something positive to say in order to blog about it?
Well, that hasn’t happened much lately, so here goes anyway…
About the upcoming election, my traditional affiliation has been
Republican because of moral and economic issues. In general, the economy
stinks. Gas prices don’t seem like they will ever come down, no [...]
