Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day! Just ignore those strange looks that your friends, family, and coworkers give you. If they don’t want to talk like pirates, they just don’t know what they’re missing. And speaking of missing things, you’re missing out on part of the fun if you are reading this from my RSS feed. Visit the site properly for all the piratey fun!
Tim Bray has some comments about Software Patents from the Inside. While I disagree with the concept of software patents, in general, his observations are very reasonable. This quote did catch my eye, though: “Patents and Open Source are violently incompatible.”
This story has been big news this week, but I was too busy to post anything about it until recently. Read all about Verisign’s latest faux pas over on my War on Spam site.
Yesterday, my wife informed me that when you clicked the comments links on posts, it wasn’t showing the comments, or the form to enter new comments. Oddly enough, this only appeared to be happening in Internet Explorer 6, which is why I hadn’t noticed it, because I use Mozilla as my primary web browser. I’ve been poking around in the code as time allows, and still haven’t figured out why this was happening. But I … Continue reading
Earlier this morning, XP crashed on me. “No big deal,” I thought. Until just now, when I realized that for some reason, my Mozilla bookmarks are all gone. I should be able to recover most of them from an old copy, but I know that there are a lot of good links that I added more recently.
Two years ago today, the world was stunned by terrorist attacks in which hijacked airliners brought down the World Trade Center, damaged the Pentagon building, and resulted in the crash of a fourth plane in Pennsylvania. Here in the US, flags flew at half-mast for weeks on end, and I’ll probably never again be able to see a flag at half-mast without remembering the sense of mingled sorrow and determination that swept our nation during … Continue reading
I mentioned earlier that I have converted my site to WordPress, and set up link redirection for the old links. There’s some discussion going on over at Alex’s site about this subject as well. I figured I’d put up some notes about what I did. First of all, for a couple of static links, like for my RSS files, I just added some redirect directives to my .htaccess file, like so: # redirect the old … Continue reading
Alex King beat me to it, but I’ve finally converted my blog to WordPress. I’ve been working on the conversion on-and-off for the last couple of weeks. I have redirects set up for my old URLs. If you notice any major problems, please let me know.
Recently, several blogs, including the WordPress Development Blog, have been hit by spammers. The spammers post comments containing links to porn sites across a spectrum of different blogs. This has sparked some discussions about various ways to handle this type of problem. I’ve posted my thoughts on my War on Spam site.
Okay, here’s another example of me using my blog as auxiliary memory storage and bookmarking. Here’s an article on SSH Bouncing, or a way to use SSH to tunnel a connection between two firewalled machines via an outside SSH server. I’ve always figured there must be a way to do this, but I didn’t realize it was so easy. via Holy Shmoly!