This blog has moved to a new server, from my desktop Windows system to a recycled Fedora Linux system. We had to to some tricky stuff at the firewall to keep from using another external IP, so if things get weird, let me know.
(update 26 Oct 2006: Now powered by Fedora Core 6.)
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This post on Symbol Engine provides a solution for my longstanding problem with the Admin Dashboard page in my Wordpress installation. THANKS!
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John Dvorak argues that market forces (”we on the market, so we’ll force you to do…”) will doom free the free municiapl WiFi services that are springing up around the country. Chicago is evaluating running its own. Dvoark assumes that a combination of telephone carriers, cable companies, and cell phone companies (oh, wait, [...]
Until I put up this blog, I had no idea what blogspam was. Now, I get 15-20 “comments” posted each week to items on this blog. Usually, they’re a list porn sites or sites for erectile disfunction. (I guess you use the latter if the former doesn’t help.)
Thanks to the good people at Akismet, [...]
In an end of the year reflection, I looked back over the ‘05 project list and noted that while we spent most of our money on commercial, closed source systems (including a certain company in Redmond, Wa), we have done a lot of interesting and useful stuff with open source software.
CCIM’s current OSS-based implemenations and [...]
The Washington Post reposts a Reuters report that says “Coffee and tea may reduce the risk of serious liver damage in people who drink too much alcohol, are overweight or have too much iron in the blood, researchers reported yesterday.
Oh, yeah!
Let’s hear it for the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and [...]
The little clock on my Linux screen has four time options: Unix time, 12 hour, 24 hour, and Internet Time. I know what the first three are, but Internet Time?
What is Internet Time? It seems to be a completely useless invention from the global conspiracy that brought us the metric system.
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This site and other CCIM sites were offline for a while today. Of course, we first thought it was our problem. After tearing up a lot of time and effort and emotion, we found the problem was outside our network. The Internet Storm Center reported that the problem was that another ISP [...]
What do you give someone who already has an H2 for Christmas? Segway XT
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