September 30, 2003
At least they find you handy...
I had the delightful opportunity to meet Tom Silva and Richard Trethewey from
This Old House. This picture was taken just before their presentation at the National Building Museum.
Yet another stupid idea
It seems Network Solutions, part of Verisign, has added what's known as a wildcard A record to the root DNS servers.
For the non-geeks out there this means they've added a hack that damages how web sites are found.
September 29, 2003
Comment spam run amok
Well, it seem the idiots sending spam are overrunning weblog comment systems. This is shame. Instead of allowing for our...
September 24, 2003
hServe
Nicest of the Damned mentions Intel's pocket server project. I've long suggested that what'd be better than lugging around a...
ANWR drilling
We will drill in ANWR. It's not a question of if, it's a question of when. A point to consider,...
What's the hurry in Iraq?
Why are France, Germany and Russian in such a hurry to transition Iraq? Is it because of some deep-seated concerns...
September 22, 2003
Driver ignorance
Wake up you idiots, when the lights are out at an otherwise signal-controlled intersection you MUST STOP. It's the same...
Pepco sucks ass
At 5:15 last Wednesday our community lost electricity. As of 10am Monday we're still in the dark. We lost power...
September 18, 2003
Ahoy matey!
Dont' forget, this Friday is Talk Like A Pirate Day! Given the approach of Hurricane Isabel on the mid-Atlantic area...
September 15, 2003
Mac-on-Linux via Cygwin?
Hmmm, if I'm reading things right I ought to be able to use YDL on a Macintosh to startup Mac-on-linux...
Back online long enough to get demoted
This has been the Summer from Hell for machines around here. From drive failures to electric brownouts, it's been rough....
Halo for Windows goes Gold!
Excellent news! Halo for Windows is expected in stores by September 30th. Count on productivity numbers to fall during the...
September 14, 2003
Old iron never dies... just run linux on it!
Heh, I'd had several old PowerMac machines with no useful purpose any longer. So on a lark I grabbed the...
September 10, 2003
Does new mean death of old?
There's a buzz going on about lately claiming that e-mail is dead and that weblogs and/or RSS are a better...
September 08, 2003
New vCard site
Greg Bays has a new version of his vCard editor website: http://www21.brinkster.com/seeit360/ Very cool!...
September 06, 2003
Size matters?
Just to put Africa in some perspective Archives. Huh, I've long know the relative size of European countries compared to...
September 04, 2003
Crickets
Arrrgh, it's the end of summer and the crickets are invading. Anyone know a good way to trap these damned...
September 03, 2003
Linux video woes
In an attempt to resurrect my crashed linux box (the third box this summer) I've experimented with different Linux distributions....
