Category: General

Following Scott Yang's nice post, I am now using a version of WordPress checked out from the Subversion 2.0 branch. It's quite nice to be able to update WordPress to the latest version simply by doing: (more…)...

A few weeks ago while installing a new fill valve in our toilet, I bent the rigid metal tubing that goes from the shut-off valve to the toilet a bit too much and it kinked and then broke. Unfortunately, the tubing and the...

I have one of those RSA key fob things that cycles randomly through numbers for authenticating to my company's VPN. Unfortunately, it's all too common for me to leave the thing at work or to leave it at home or to have it fall...

A Microsoft employee talks about his experiences with Lisp/Scheme, the current state of the Lisp world and how Lisp might and should change. And how alluring Lisp is to the non-Lisp programmer yet being unaccessible. My favorite...

Ted Neward says that Microsoft's new "Monad" scripting language can replace Ruby I doubt that. Ruby is cross-platform. And Ruby is typically used for web apps (e.g.: Ruby on Rails, which is where a lot of Ruby excitement comes...

Yesterday I installed DenyHosts on my Linux box. This is an interesting program - it's a Python program that scans your system logs and looks for repeated failed login attempts and then it adds those IP addresses to your...

A really, really strange thing happened yesterday. Something that shook the rock of my faith in TiVo and vegetables. We were watching something that we had recorded on TiVo. Suddenly, the program cut out and was replaced with a...