Love and Hate in Baghdad
I found an interesting blog, Baghdad Burning, written by a fellow (anonymous for security reasons) techie who used to work in downtown Baghdad. Used to, because as she is finding out, life isn’t … Read more
Technology
Lemmings 2003
Here’s a fun little amusement: lemmings, a simple yet enjoyable game from the early 90’s, was recently re-programmed, in javascript!?, by crisp as an entry for a dhtml contest. Yes, this game, which … Read more
All the Pages Now Validates!
In yet another example of a busman’s holiday(weekend?) I spent most of the past couple of days working on this site in an effort to make the site validate per W3C standards. Here’s … Read more
DataBase Migration Successful!
If you are reading this, then it means that the migration of my blog’s content from one mysql database to another was successful. The reasons for doing the migration were at least two-fold: … Read more
Movable Type 2.64
With only one glitch (must use existing mt.cfg and mt-db-pass.cgi files) the upgrade of this blog to the latest version of the Movable Type software, 2.64, completed without further incident, as this post … Read more
SearchBlog
As good as google is, searching for a specific blog post amongst the millions of pages indexed by their service often results in not finding what one is looking for. The problem is … Read more
Bruce Sterling Interview
Declan interviews scifi author Bruce Sterling in a wide-ranging conversation that covers privacy and privacy issues from a variety of perspectives. From looking at the very meaning of privacy, You have more privacy … Read more