Comments Disabled
Yes. I know, I’m still at my old host. But to deal with my newfound fame, and to make sure this switch is as painless as possible, I’ve disabled comments. Hopefully I’ll have time in the near future to Sign up at Dreamhost Move my site files and DB over to Dreamhost Transfer my domain [...]
Outages
I’m going to be switching hosts over the next few days. There may be outages. If you experience an outage, take a deep breath, count to three, and try back in a few hours. Edit: I’ll be starting my DreamHost account tomorrow. Hopefully the domain name transfer won’t be too hairy, and I’ll have the [...]
Ch-ch-changes
I’ve moved the blog to the front page and changed the name. I’ve still got a little bit to do to make it more “homey.” Like redirecting the requests for my blog and getting a reasonably good theme drawn up. But I like it. WordPress 2.0 is absolutely awesome.
E-Books. Again.
Curling Up With a Good E-Book The iPod let users do one thing that E-Books probably won’t allow you to do: Make your own book. If I could download stuff from Safari and put it on my E-Book Reader, or export web pages to PDF, and the E-Book reader used standard formats (txt, rdf, and [...]
My Podcasts
Come Fly With Me – An excellent podcast by an airline pilot who just got promoted to captain. The Signal – a Firefly podcast. They’re doing a series of short specials for December. Worth checking out for any Firefly/Serenity Fan. They’ve committed to a second season, unlike Fox. Inside Mac Radio – A mac podcast. [...]
Heard on the ‘Net #2
If the road infrastructure had been built as a commercial enterprise, then you can guarantee there’d be industry resistance to the concept of a government-supplied free road.
Tidy HTML from PHP 5
Tidying up your HTML with PHP 5 This is one of the neatest things that’s built into PHP5. You get your page ready, usually in an output buffer, and then you run it through HTML tidy so that it looks nice and validates. Beautiful and elegant. Here’s how to install for both PHP 4 and [...]
Riders for Health
Riders for Health I saw this organization on the recent PBS series “Rx for Survival.” They distribute motorcycles and knowledge of how to fix them to African health workers, so they can move about more easily. It’s one of the best ways I can see of helping create a self-sustaining African economy which can build [...]
The Fly
The LeapFrog Fly I like the concept of the Fly, but I don’t like how it requires actual dead trees to work. Not just dead trees, but specially formatted dead trees. It would be much better if it used accelerometers to do 3D space tracking, so you could use it without special paper. Needing paper [...]
Mac Users as Urban Hipsters
Not all Mac users are like that. In NASA and JPL press conferences I see quite a few slinging Powerbooks. They give them a way to run all the Unixy spacecraft navigation stuff while being able to play WarCraft or Microsoft Word. There are even beany-wearing alpha geeks who run Macs. Hell, when Mitnick got [...]