Hanging out at the apartment this weekend, on call. Good for my knee, a little bit annoying. The BUDA Summer Club tourney was going on this weekend, and a couple of teams were hoping that I’d pick up with them. Would have been nice, but… We had a site build (at work) last week that [...]
Peter pointed out in a comment on the post “Who are you?” that Michael Green has scooped me with the whole google map of visitors idea. He stumbled across gVisit, which does basically the same thing that I was trying to do with jVisitors, but does it 1) somewhere else and 2) in a way [...]
Played with the theme of this page a little bit, mostly figuring out a way to have something other than a static image at the top. I put up a page — things-ive-changed-about-wordpress-or-rin — to document the mods.
Okay, this is a geek post. Like, seriously. My ISP — RCN — has been having some issues resolving some domain names lately. Chief among these, at least in annoyance factor to me, is the one that you’re currently looking at. For some reason, tallape.org just doesn’t exist on the internet if you take RCN’s [...]
Today marked the launch of the OpenSuSE portal. It’s existence marks a change in Novell’s business model for the SuSE distribution, following in the footsteps of RedHat with their Fedora Project. The old model had significant shared features with a “normal” software distribution project. It revolved around a smallish group of people employed by a [...]
Novell and SCO have just kicked off a rather significant battle over the actual ownership of the various copyrights and patents for UNIX — that is, the original UNIX operating system on which others (including, to some degree, Linux) are based. SCO has been assumed to be the patent holder for a while now; Novell [...]
This is the first of what will be, I expect, two posts regarding one that Taz put up on earthlikesky.com. In reference to this comment: My suspicion is that when programmers write code for non-programmers, they often start without considering the front-end of what they’re writing. What you’ve just mentioned is the difference between good [...]
Less than 18 hours after the London Bombings, wikipedia already has a massive entry. Included are details on everything from the timeline and economic damage, transcripts of the dispatch radio messages to buses, and worldwide responses. The page is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_London_transport_explosions. This is the first time I know of that an encyclopedia has also been [...]
I just discovered that out-of-the-box, Mozilla Firefox is ignoring the ‘target=”_blank”‘ tags that I’m adding to my links. For those who haven’t been catching up on their Standards-compliant HTML, the ‘target=”_blank”‘ tag should tell your browser to open a link in a new window. (Most browsers will also accept ‘target=”_new”‘, but that’s not strict HTML [...]
Hosting company’s server got hacked, and everything (but everything) got wiped out. I’m a little confused about the whole thing, but I’m going with it. Off to Pittsburgh in the morning, by way of Rochester, NY and McConnells Mills, PA. Mom and I are driving out. As a result, I’ll not be able to fill [...]