January 31, 2003
Tracking RSS readership
If you want to track whether or not the links being referred to your website are coming from your RSS...
January 30, 2003
PGP Keys
What's all this I hear about PGP? PGP, like X509, is a method for signing and encrypting messages. When you...
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X509 Certs
What's an X509 Certificate? An X509 Certificate allows you to exchange secure messages. The certificate itself is a file you...
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Optical wireless networking
Want point to point wireless at 10mb? Want to do it optically? Then take a look at Ronja....
Visualizing speech
The AT&T Research people are really doing some amazing stuff with speech and facial animation. This is something else....
January 29, 2003
As seen in FoRK: "Chomsky is a Nobel moron, the world's #1 anti-Semitic Jew, probably suffering advanced Alzheimer's."...
January 28, 2003
The agony of linux dependencies
Arrrggghh.... the better part of a day wasted on trying to wrangle gcc upgrades on a linux box. What a...
Kids, don't try this at home...
While trawling for some python links I came across a reference to a web page entitled "Bizarre stuff you can...
January 26, 2003
Just another manic Sunday...
It seems a certain other software developer's got his usual "manic Sunday" mood going again. Perhaps I should get around...
Recalls
Got an HP printer? Be sure it's power cord is OK. Apparently they've got a recall on them due to...
January 25, 2003
Ingenious
Never let it be said that people aren't clever. This guy's worked up a way to use partially bad RAM...
PostBack, TrackBack, through Hell and Back?
It seems some nice traction is building toward using more robust tracking of comments and postings. Will it withstand the...
January 24, 2003
Congratulations Sam and Sue!...
Iraq's lies
Whitehouse report Apparatus of Lies....
Time's coming for you too
It's not a widely known fact but I'm a pretty sentimental sort of guy. So when I read this piece...
Yahoogroups prefs?
Just great. It seems the configuration gremlins in Yahoo Groups are at it again. Now it appears group subscription settings...
January 23, 2003
Prescription costs
How typical. Someone in upper income brackets is (think Casablanca) shocked, shocked! that prescription drug costs are high. He's been...
Blanking a linux console
This has bugged me for a while. I finally got around to figuring it out. On a linux box if...
Ahhh, relaxing with friends
Gotta love having a few friends over for dinner. I love to cook and they love to eat. Made even...
python rocks
Joerg Lehman's pytone is a terrific bit of code. It's a text mode playlist/jukebox program for linux. I keep it...
January 22, 2003
Grouchy replies
From time to time I get flak from folks for posting critical commentary. They'd apparently prefer warm and fuzzy replies...
logs and timestamps
Trying to make your own timestamp numbers for handling apache logs? Here's a tip...
Key discovery
Justin raises questions about discovery of keys. What he's suggesting is exactly where I'm thinking is worth heading. The trouble...
Wrestling with Islam
David Warren's essay Wrestling with Islam....
Yet another survey
I found the The Wild Monk - War Questionnaire to be yet another poorly formed, biased, leading poll. It's amazing...
January 21, 2003
Like molasses on a cold morning
As a perused dc.forsale-computers the other day I ran across an ad for some cheap P2/333 processors. I've an old...
Sam's going to be busy
Looks like Sam Gentile is about to become really busy. He and his wife Sue are off to the hospital....
Making PDF?
If anyone out there wants to make PDF files without using Acrobat then here's what it takes. Go get GhostScript, RedMon, the generic Adobe printer driver along with Distiller profiles and PDF-tool. Then you have to jump through some configuration hoops.
Comment signing
I've been thinking about how to structure a system that allowed comments you make to 'return to you' so you...
January 20, 2003
Recovering the Scream
Perilous sting to recover The Scream...
Testing...
Got an old monitor that's out of alignment? Then give Nokia's test pattern generator a try. I used it to...
January 19, 2003
IE6 is broken
IE6 has something very wrong with it. I gave up on trying to use it, something in it is just not right.
January 18, 2003
Ghost in the machine?
I'm not one given to superstition or paranormal phenomenon. But
this picture is just TOO freaky.
How cold is it?
It's cold as the balls on a brass monkey. Cold enough to mean the cover on the Cadillac I'm selling...
January 17, 2003
Just what does knows mean?
I like what the foaf RDF experiment is trying to do. The concept of being able to share assorted bits...
Like slashdot with better grammar
Heh, some of the mailing lists I read have some pretty funny posts now and then. Funny if you're a...
January 16, 2003
Visualizing networks of people
I just came across Huminity. Looks pretty interesting. It's doing what foaf sort of does but without the richer data...
January 15, 2003
Who would buy that?
From the 'too much free time on their hands department' comes WhoWouldBuyThat.com. A rather humorous sampling of things sold on...
550 No transport provider available
My friend Pete Jansson asked me to link to our fellow Old Bay SAGE user group member Rob Vees' article...
rpm not rebuilding?
Trying to get an rpm rebuilt on a linux box? Issuing an 'rpm --rebuild sourcepackage.rpm' and getting the rather cryptic...
January 14, 2003
Finding pgp keys
If you need a web interface for finding PGP public keys try the one at MIT. My key can be...
Geo data in RSS
Early last year I began working on ways to integrate geographic data into RSS feeds. The Syndic8.com database supports two...
January 13, 2003
moving imap messages
Once again Mark Crispin comes to the rescue with the answer. When moving imap messages using mailutil on the same...
Metadata and bad design
David Wienberger tosses out a rather lame attempt at bashing metadata. One rather fragile connection one could make to metadata,...
January 12, 2003
p2p blogging
There's a fair amount of interest generated in dealing with the Chinese blockage of reading weblogs. Here's an idea, make...
January 11, 2003
Chinese blocking
What some folks fail to realize is that in China if you're caught running network services there's a good chance...
January 10, 2003
Adventures in painting
What fun! Chris is having the house painted and we've been picking colors. After considerable hassles and countless headaches, the...
January 09, 2003
Fear the metadata?
How is it the 'old guard' of any form of media take a generally dismissive attitude when anyone suggests ways...
Foaf is not just about XML
Foaf is not just about XML, it's about RDF. And that's a good thing!
Imap moving
Got mail spread out all over a bunch of different services? Then a little scripting might help you wrestle them all into shape.
January 08, 2003
Nitwit word of the day?
It seems certain folks have taken a fancy to the word "kleptocracy". I keep hearing Mandy Patinkin saying "You keep...
January 07, 2003
January 06, 2003
Testing
Tracking back......
January 01, 2003
Testing the profile assistant
Need to fill in a form automatically? Are you using IE? The profile assistant built into IE may be able to help.
How'd he do that?
So you see all this fancy stuff here and wonder, how do I do that on my site?...
Reading Lists
Everyone's got the favorite books, here's my list.
Which OS are you?
Find out which one you are......
About Bill
I provide a range of consulting services and presentations. If you'd like to have a dynamic speaker present to your...
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Current Subscriptions
I keep track of things using RSS newsfeeds. I have a featured designed into Syndic8.com that allows me to easily...
Quotes
Just a few quotes I've found from various places online....
My Projects
Syndic8, Feed Archive, RSS-1.0 (the real standard) and ICE, various projects I'm working on.
Software
I've created a number of different things over the years. I've got a few of them online here. I suppose...
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Slow window.open in IE?
So what's the deal here? Does IE have an unresolved bug with using a name on a window.open command? It sure looks like it. Is there a way to update IE so that it doesn't take so damned long to open a named window?
Companies
Here's a couple of companies who's products I've found useful Amazon Microsoft SixApart (makers of MovableType) Kensington...
Projects of Note
Here's a few projects I've found interesting: Syndic8.com RSS RDF SourceForge GotDotNet Freshmeat...
My PGP info
Hex ID: 0x79F14C94 Fingerprint: 2868 8C59 FBEA FABE 123D 1C69 FDBB AC3D 79F1 4C94 PGP ascii public key:http://www.ideaspace.net/users/wkearney/pubkey.pgp.asc PGP6...
Link Pages
These pages contain my links to other sites.
Extra Stuff
The sidebar labelled Extra Stuff contains links to various bits of extra information....
Sayings
Everyone's got some favorite quotes or sayings. Here are a few of mine: Asking programmers to write social software is...
useless miscellany
There's a ton of strange little web gadgets one can find online. Here's a few of them....
People Links
In keeping with the weblogging trend, here's few links to some other folks. (more to come)...
Comment policy
Ok, this is bound to come up eventually. I run this site and I'll exercise whatever editorial license I desire....
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Importing PGP keys
If you want to use one of my PGP keys you'll need to import them into your local keyring. This...
