Archive for February, 2006

Mac upsizes mini

It’s out. The new
Apple
Mac Mini now sports either an Intel powered 1.5ghz Core Solo, or the beefier 1.6ghz Duo processor. That is officially the first time a dual processor architecture has been shoe-horned into the mini.

The base model now bundles a 60gb hdd, as well as 512mb ram - a welcome improvement given […]

Gmail Retro-vite

If you have yet to score a Gmail account, please leave a comment and I’ll hook you up.

Righteousness of Religion

I’ve spent some time
reading various
blog
entries regarding the recent Muslim backlash against the Danish cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet of Allah, Mohammed that were initially published September of 2005 and again, recently.
I am not particularly aligned to any religion, so I have taken a great deal of time to ponder the logical “rightness” […]

Dvorak meets The Joy of Tech comic…

Dvorak meets The Joy of Tech comic…
 • Dvorak’s feverish rantings have not gone unnoticed.

Will Apple Adopt Windows?

Sometimes
Dvorak makes sizeable assumptions, other times, well he’s just about as wrong as one can get.

“The idea that Apple would ditch its own OS for Microsoft Windows came to me from Yakov Epstein, a professor of psychology at Rutgers University, who wrote to me convinced that the process had already begun. I was amused, […]

Website Design Cues

Ed Kohler over at
Technology Evangelist has written an interesting article on
five critical considerations for effective website design.
While the article is aimed squarely at the corporate community, there’s some great data points in the article for all web developers, including bloggers, although I would like to offer an alternate view on one of the […]

Spellbound and Firefox 1.5.0.1

Solution to get Spellbound spell checker working with Firefox 1.5.0.1.

Computer Addiction? Nah, Probably Just Modern Life
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Wordpress - secure directories fix

I’ve found
a quick hack to fix the secure directory issue in wp 2.x. It involves a two step process that solves the issue temporarily..
This has been a nuisance for many a wordpress user, creating mayhem and aggrivation due to wordpress helpfully attempting to turn any valid URI into a permalink. In my opinion, this […]

Latest WP borkage

Matt, Ryan, looks like your last commit or two has added some invalid code.

Another cyberdissident imprisoned

Another cyberdissident imprisoned
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