I’ve spent some spare minutes here and there over the last several days working on a new theme for the site. Try out my Halloween Theme. Theme switching requires Javascript and at least a moderately modern browser. Even Netscape 4 users can get some of the effects (though it messes up the menus on the left for some reason). One of these days I’m going to clean up my HTML and do some more interesting … Continue reading
Excellent comments on copyright law over on Brent’s site. And that’s only one issue that probably has our Founding Fathers rolling in their graves. The current state of Copyright, Patent, and Trademark law in the United States is really pretty shameful. It seems as though big money interests have bought and paid for the right to “own” any kind of intellectual property in perpetuam, and to control where and when the average citizen may have … Continue reading
The results are in. My graphic came in 4th place. Not bad, I suppose 🙂
You can now vote for your favorite RSS link button. Vote for mine! Vote for mine! I submitted two (one optimized for dark backgrounds, one for light backgrounds). So if you do vote for mine, choose the one for light backgrounds (the one in the lower left — the other one looks like it’s got a black magic marker smear under the checkmark), just to keep the votes consolidated. I’m going to ask mark to … Continue reading
Another link for Mark…. After his post on RSS validation, I checked my feed and found that it wasn’t valid (improper formats for my language and pubdate elements). Fixed. I’ve also put in fixes to the pubdate such that it will reflect the timestamp of the latest article posted here, rather than always using the current time (and thus negating any caching strategies used by the clients checking the feed).
Scholars are studying an ancient ossuary (burial box) which may contain the remains of Jesus Christ’s brother. The box bears an Aramaic inscription which translates to “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus.” “It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that these three names refer to the personages so identified in the New Testament,” said Hershel Shanks, editor of Biblical Archaeology Review. The article notes that while most scholars agree that Jesus was a real person, … Continue reading
Mark Pilgrim is a source of a lot of my web-related reading these days. He’s sharp and stays on top of current happenings in the bleeding edge of the web. I’m not sure I like the summaries in his “Further reading” list (it clutters up the page, IMHO). But I’m all about the new RSS feed. I’ve added it to my FeedReader list.
Pssst…. I’m looking at you…. Freaky, huh?
The recording industry has been lamenting over the past few years about how music sharing on the internet has hurt their sales, and that artists’ rights are being violated. Of course, most geeks who burn MP3s know that they’re just blowing smoke. The RIAA is not working in the artists’ best interests. They don’t care about art, they care about profits. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against profits. I’m pure capitalist, through-and-through. But you … Continue reading
I don’t share very much in this weblog. Partially, this is because of time constraints — I don’t often have time to work on the computer at home, and I’m usually too busy at work to post more than very shallow links to other sites, often as a sort of centralized bookmark for my own future reference. Another reason is privacy — not for myself, but for the other members of my family. I have … Continue reading