Mark Faigenbaum, an old friend of my wife’s, is having an exhibition and reception January 21 (5-9 pm) and 22 (1-5 pm) at SF Recycling & Disposal, Inc., “also known as The Dump”, with two other artists. Mark is currently an artist-in-residence at the Norcal Waste Art Studio & Gallery. The pieces he will be… Read More »
And in a somewhat less productive use of my time, I earned the “Wicked Sick!” announcement in an Unreal Tournament 2004 Team DeathMatch tonight.
Today’s Oakland Tribune has two good articles on computer reuse. One of the articles describes how Oakland Technology Exchange-West, or OTX, has supplied over 5,000 computers to families who would have otherwise found it very difficult to afford a computer. While much of the benefit to these families is financial, I suspect that a first… Read More »
Well, not the entire car, but apparently enough of the essential wiring to kill the battery and various other essential engine components. Apparently an industrious set of mice made a nest in the engine compartment of my Audi TT while I was on vacation and proceeded to chew through some of the wiring and miscellaneous… Read More »
DreamHost, the company that hosts my website, never fails to amaze me. Since I started with them nearly three years ago, they have increased the amount of disk space and bandwidth for my account by a huge factor, while increasing the annual charge for my account by exactly $0.00. They just tripled the disk space… Read More »
If it’s not one kind of spam, it’s another. A mouth breather recently figured out to spam WordPress-powered blogs via the trackback mechanism. The first spam trackback I got was a bunch of pseudo-random letters. The next ten or so were nasty porn spam. I had to temporarily rename the trackback script to stop the… Read More »
Here’s your challenge for the day. Read this Seattle Times Magazine article from start to finish without trying to multitask. Even though the article puts forth cogent arguments for why multitasking (especially with intellectual tasks like reading) by humans is usually inefficient, I couldn’t stop myself. First, I had to check on the progress of… Read More »
My favorite “top ten predictions for 2005” list so far is Bill de hÓra’s list. If you’re an open source, Java, XML, Python, web service, Mozilla loving geek, you’ll like it, too.
WordPress 1.2.2 was released in mid-December and includes a couple of important PHP-related security fixes, so everyone should upgrade, especially with the santy worm going around. I upgraded tonight, and it was a pretty easy process: Download and Prep New Version While connected to the root dir of the website via ssh, download the newest… Read More »
VoiceXML Review used to regularly publish interesting articles and news updates related to VoiceXML, but had fallen somewhat silent over the last six months or so. A lot has been going on with respect to VXML 2.1 and 3.0, so I’ve been hoping to see some more activity on the site. It’s good to see… Read More »