smackfoo.com | I find your lack of faith disturbing.

"Good people will do good things with it, and bad people will do bad things with it — regardless of any protections I put in place." — one of the best written examples of why open source just plain works, inspite of asshat’s choosing to abuse it.

"Last Friday Joyent made Connector free + open. Free in that anyone can sign up for a complimentary 2 User/ 2 GB plan." — Luke gives us the low down on what’s on offer.

"If you ever wanted to view and control your Pocket PC on your Desktop Screen - an excellent application that will do this job for you." — manage your windows mobile from the desktop.. extremely useful.

Via dougal comes a snazzy show-and-tell presenting some pretty fly wordpress sites. These aren’t your ordinary rabbits.

"After turning it back on, I received a grey screen with a blinking folder containing a question mark." — a timely reminder from Dave that [having] backups, rock.. and that hardware failures, suck.

Pointing out the absolute futility and utter failure, that is DRM. And to think, instead of the industry forcing it’s rootkitesque ways on the world, it could so very simply release music, DRM free, at a fair price.

"If you have a minute take a photo of how you normally digest my attempts molding the English language into sentences and if the response is decent I’ll whip something up.." — Greg asks a reasonable question - here’s my less reasonable answer.. I sent this too.

Have to say, Fabiol does genuinely capture that ‘print’ feel, whereas Paperback, in my somewhat non-learnered opinion displays well as a heading - Palatino Sans strikes me as an ideal textual offset for photography. I know.. I have much to learn.

".. this change should make it easier for end-users to recognize when they’ve been handed a malicious domain address masquerading as an actual official web site." — surely warning people before-hand is better than after the fact?! .. ambulance + cliff.

"Writing an email is like writing an article. Only quote the relevant parts, interspersing your new remarks between the quoted passages." — agreed, in this case, less is more.

This, is what JJ Abrams has been up to while you weren’t watching - keep an eye on this one.