Map of GNU/Linux distributions over time, by kde-files.org....

Gold Farmers

From the We Make Money Not Art interview with Ge Jin, director of a documentary of “gold...

Messenger Parrot (via picturemastermind)

I’m reading about origins of The Manhattan Project right now. It’s a little shocking how...

In the queue…

Comment Cool-Down Using memcached

Caught this nice tip from the makers of Forumwarz, re: preventing users or bots from flooding...

Remember the Octothorpe

Maybe you call it a pound sign (US) or a hash (UK) or a sharp (music), but the real name of the #...

Using Camino as a site-specific browser for Google...

Okay, that is some FINE looking currency. The new coin of...

ssh hostname tab completion

Where is your Record button?

A public safety message: Do you know how to casually record audio on your cell phone or mp3...

now on the wall of my cube at work…

Make It Work In Turkey

Jeff Atwood advises globally-aware developers to make sure their applications work well for Turkish...

iPhone vs World

A colleague just asked me if I think Apple will dominate the next generation of computing.  I said...

Civilization crashes on Init Python in...

My new copy of Civilization is dead on arrival.  No empire-building for me this...

Security Vulnerability in Firefox, not.

Reports of a “Serious Vulnerability in Firefox 2.0.0.12“ are greatly exaggerated, to say...

TrueCrypt Released for OSX

This is so hot that I’m gonna post without even trying it out (must maintain plausible...

Fluid.app is an OSX must-have

Update (2008-04-05): I recommend using Camino for security-sensitive applications like email,...

“As for that eternal life and women throwing themselves at...”
— Slashdot | Could We Find a...

 darkpony is a rockstar

Kindle Store: Highest Priced E-Books

OSX: How To Change When Periodic Scripts...

Suppose you want to run a backup job every day. You place a script in /etc/periodic/daily/ that runs...

Changing the run time for daily scripts from 3:15am to...

iPhone + gloves = non-starter

I think I just found the nail in the coffin for my iPhone: it doesn’t work when you’re...

The Web Breaks, Get Over It

I don’t really care what Microsoft decides to do about version incompatibilities between their...

HTML 5 differences from HTML 4 “element.classList is a convenient accessor for className. The...

Migrating TextEdit.app Styles

I upgraded to Leopard, and now all of my painstakingly-created TextEdit styles have disappeared. Do...

Transmit has S3 support

Hey! Transmit can upload files to your buckets.  I guess maybe that’s been in there for a...

Macbooks on fire?

The Apple Store (U.S.) - Apple 85W MagSafe Power Adapter (for MacBook Pro) Over 200 reports of...

Get a good, randomish password from your...

The password assistant in OSX is the work of a genius. Seriously, Apple put the smart guy to work on...

Leopard password assistant.

Generate Some Entropy, yo

For whatever reason my Debian servers don’t generate enough entropy. Programs that read from...

Keybindings in OSX Terminal

I have plenty of good things to say about the Leopard Terminal.app: love the tabs, love the...

Editing keybindings in Leopard Terminal.app. Remember kids,...

General Web Breakage

In the last week, GMail and AOL mail have both managed to completely bork their Safari interfaces,...

How to tell if Facebook is requesting your...

How To Build A Read/Write JavaScript API explains a scheme that uses fragment identifiers appended...

Sample, Store, Playback

This post about Slow Glass (it takes light a full year to pass all the way through a pane of the...

Music To My Eyes

While it scares me that Eolas won their dumb patent case, I felt like jumping for joy when I saw...

EV Conversion

re: previous post: Of course, Godwin is taking a few liberties in describing the ease of an EV...

“Everybody should be driving a plug-in vehicle right now.”
— … Jonathan Godwin...

On Stemming

I recently added stemming to my search action, and I noticed a really big gotcha that is not...

The Day I Stopped Using Windows

This evening I sat down to pick up a game of Civilization where I left off, except that I...

HCF - Halt and Catch Fire

Big music bites.

“When Jammie Thomas downloaded Rhythm is Gonna Get You by Gloria Estefan, it was to prove...

“This does send a message, I hope, that downloading and...”
— Actually, the message it sends...

Instance reincarnation using duplicity?

For me, the biggest challenge to using Amazon’s EC2 infrastructure (besides the usual trust...

Today, we raise our mug in loving tribute to Alfred H. Peet...

Nerds as Bad Connivers

Collision course. On afternoons like this, doppler radar is...

bash for loops vs svn wildcards

Subversion’s copy and move utilities don’t parse wildcards. Specifically, “svn:...

Why can’t the Beeb just use Flash video like everyone...

Overcoming MySQL's 4GB Limit

sudo -b

Trying to start a background process with sudo can be annoying, because you end up running sudo in...

Nano Babbage

BBC NEWS: Antique engines inspire nano chipNano technology finally starts to get street-level...

Safari Windows Release leads to better...

JSON DB: a compressed JSON format

How I Backup My Powerbook

The following script syncs my laptop (Honshu) with an external drive (Kyoshu). The three commands...

Creating a custom Finder icon

Man what a runaround. You know that you can change a file or folder’s icon in the Finder by...

digitarald's FancyUpload

Hallon

“In December 2005, a new Police Department computer program...”
— Cara Buckley, in an NYTimes...

“DNS (domain name system) is a distributed, coherent,...”
— Paul Vixie Wow, the first and...

“So, to make RSS much easier to understand, in Oprah speak,...”
— Back in skinny jeans: How to...

IBDOM - Yet Another JavaScript Template...

A clever method for cross-domain...

From Subspace: Secure Cross-Domain Communication for Web Mashups (Jackson & Wang, 2007): ...

Best. Techblog. Yetah.

Artist 3.0 - The New Minstrels

Clive Thompson has outed the Internet minstrel in Sex, Drugs, and Updating Your Blog in...

““Maybe this is what my career will be,” Coulton said: slowly...”
— Sex, Drugs and Updating Your...

(The start of) ppk's Introduction to Range

OSX Preview Improvement

I’m reading this blurry PDF about screenprinting (thanks, O’Reilly) in Preview.app, and...

This tumblr thing

Oh wow, this is exactly the sort of service I’ve been wanting to build for about a year now....

“Oh damn, I should have told you sooner. I was talking to...”
— Douglas Engelbart quoting an...