Yes, the B-52's. No, not pr0n. Sheesh!
You know, sometimes I’m amazed at just how quickly UPS and other carriers can deliver packages. I can give a package to a driver tonight, and have it in New York by 3 pm tomorrow. That’s pretty impressive. However, there are times when their performance is considerably less impressive. Take, for example, my recent shipment. [...]
As I was walking home from dinner this evening, I passed by two homeless people living in abandoned shop entrances. One was a man, the other was a woman. And as I passed them, I noticed a few things about their respective living areas. Things that got me to thinking about how different these two [...]
Hot off of Nico Golde’s blog, news of the unthinkable! People are pirating Debian every day! Every day people download Debian programs and don’t pay for them! But, finally, we have a way to track where these criminals are! Behold, warez.debian.net!
For those who are wondering what the heck I’m talking about:
demonbane@Thief:~$ dig warez.debian.net
;; Got answer:
;; [...]
Russel Coker brought up an interesting meme about things to do for the environment. Seems like a good idea, so here we go:
Instructions
A. Copy the list below to your own journal and
Bold the actions you are already taking
Underline the actions you plan to start taking
Italicize the actions that don’t apply to you
B. Add one (or [...]
Erich Schubert commented earlier that he’s really happy about some of the new features in Epiphany. Personally, I’m one of the 952 (according to popcon) people out there that still relies on Galeon for day-to-day browsing.
Galeon hasn’t been actively worked on for over a year now, unfortunately, and there has been some discussion for a [...]
Now, I’m not going to go straight to the personal attacks I have to level against Mr. Enderle. I’m going to save those for later. And I’m not going to bother debunking his 5 points; there are more than enough people commenting very effectively on that subject on his blog.
No, instead, I’m going to look at who is taking which view in this debate. The article has proven to be very insightful not because of any of the content that the author put in, but rather because of the large number of comments that have been posted about it. And the thing that really struck me as interesting in the whole discussion was the constant battle betweek geeks and business.
So I did a bit of hacking on my WP install today. I’ve been using the excellent TrackBack Validator Plugin to manage trackback spam on my blog. So far it’s done an AMAZING job. I have not yet had a single piece of TrackBack spam get through, nor have I had a single VALID TrackBack [...]