When you go out of town, remember your laptop’s power adapter before you are a few hundred miles away. D’oh. If I’m lucky I might be able to pick up an extra here in town for $100 or so — tomorrow (again, if I am lucky). Sigh.
Update: As of 9:00 Monday morning (the very minute [...]
I made it to Savannah, safe and sound. Along the way, I endured a massive storm… there was lightning on all sides and the rain was pouring down so hard that I could barely see the road. Everyone on the road had to slow down to crawl. At one point, it was coming down so [...]
It seems as though Microsoft has decreed Internet Explorer, the de facto web browser for Windows, dead (at least feature-wise and as an installable browser) at this point in time. Straight from the horse’s mouth, they declare the following (in a Q & A session):
Q: when will IE get transparent PNG support?
A: Ian, I’m sorry, [...]
Last night, I took a picture of my Red Hat soccer shirt. I designed the uniform in the style of a classic football crest (the rest of the world knows "soccer" as "football", and the probably measure the field using metric instead of the imperial system, too).
Check out the photograph of our new official soccer [...]
A Cingular security hole was found. Basically, anyone could have had access to any customer’s records. Partly at fault was lock\line, a company whose motto is "Get Security You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Have".
I am a Cingular customer. D’oh.
It makes you wonder how "secure" any given company might be.
The Fink people are finally starting to work on Gnome 2.x for OS X. Check out the screenshot which happens to feature Bluecurve (the theme family and icon set I made for Red Hat).
In the movie "Bruce Almighty", Jim Carrey’s character supposedly has a phone number which, when called, reaches God. A lot of people remembered the number and decided to call it. The number is not a 555-**** number; it actually works in around 30 places within the United States. According to the article linked above, in [...]