July 2008
Youtube: Johnny Clegg & Joan Baez -... →
Johnny Clegg & Joan Baez - Asimbonanga 2008 46664 Nelson Mandela Birthday Party 27. Juni 2008 Hyde Park London, GB with the Soweto Gospel Choir Part 2/2 (a little async) The…
June 2008
Laptops lost like hot cakes at US airports →
Close to 637,000 laptops are reported lost at around 106 U.S. airports each year, according to a survey by Ponemon Institute.
pagetable.com » Blog Archive » The real reason for... →
In Windows Vista x64, drivers are required to be signed by someone holding a VeriSign code certificate or they wonât load. Microsoftâs claimed reason for this is that it prevents Trojans from…
How to Photograph Fireworks Displays →
Photo by hupaishi
Do you want to know how to photograph fireworks? With 4th July just days away I thought I’d refresh this article in which I give 10 Fireworks Photography tips to help you get…
Web Apps vs Web Sites →
From Standard Pixel:
Indeed we are becoming more and more aware that there are two different categories of web project, Web Apps and Web Sites. Web Apps are a lot like a desktop client. Users…
Vancouver the Mail Theft Capital of Canada →
CTV is running a four-part series looking into the “epidemic of identity theft” in Vancouver, part of which is due to the volume of stolen mail in the city.
Sgt. Ken Athans, who runs the…
10,000+ Canadians petition for lower iPhone 3G... →
Section: Apple News, Steve Jobs, iPhone + Communications, Carriers, iPhone
The iPhone is finally making its way to Canada on July 11, 2008 and Canadians aren’t as happy about it as…
Miami-Dade cop accuses photo-taking college... →
By Carlos Miller
Claiming to be on Homeland Security Detail, Miami-Dade police officer James Hanna found it suspicious that a St. Thomas University professor was taking photos in the…
The best God joke ever →
I’ve been reciting an Emo Phillips one liner for years1, happy to know he’s the author of this God joke too.
This morning I received thrilling news: a joke I wrote more than 20 years ago…
Cool Stuff Monday →
A buddy of mine found three cool inventions to share with readers of my blog. These inventions can change the world and illustrate how much can be done with innovative thinking. …
Idea: Electric Outlet 2.0 →
The Problem: Let’s get rid of these things once and for all.Here we are in the 21st Century, and we’re still using electric outlets designed way back in the early 20th Century. Back then,…
Microsoft Needs to Empty Windows Trash, Reboot →
Apple has pulled the tablecloth off the table stirring just a few knives and nearly tottering a glass three times since the early 1990s. They moved from 680x0 chips to PowerPC, from homegrown Mac OS…
Why to Add Your Name and Copyright Notice When... →
Carolyn E. Wright aka The Photo Attorney writes, “Copyright infringement is much too common these days. To reap the big statutory rewards (of at least $750 and up to $150,000 for willful…
Out of Touch →
John McCain doesn’t know how to use a computer. John McCain doesn’t know when he last pumped gas or what it cost. John McCain owns seven homes and forgot to pay taxes on one of them for the past…
Avie Tevanian on Windows’s Architecture →
Randall Stross, for a piece in today’s Times advocating that Microsoft take the time and effort to re-architect Windows from the ground-up, asks Avie Tevanian’s opinion: I asked Mr. Tevanian if…
Cocoa-Like JavaScript Framework Announced →
TwilightSentry writes “Ars Technica reports that a group of developers has created an Objective-C-like extension to JavaScript along with a class library mirroring Cocoa. They’ve used these to…
Our DC trip in Photos →
My son and I shot hundreds of photos, I uploaded the best 30 or so to my Flickr account. But wanted to call a few out here so you could see my favorites.
TEACHING PATRICK ABOUT HISTORY
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Working With History in Bash →
Yesterday we talked about favorite bash features (on the ##textmate IRC channel). I figured it was worth posting mine to this blog, they mostly revolve around history, hence the title. Setup …
Demo App Contest →
Calling all developers - It’s time for a contest!
That’s right, a contest. In order to really show off what SproutCore can do, and to help foster the growth of great SproutCore developers, we are…
Anti-Evolution "Academic Freedom" Bill Passed In... →
Ars Technica is running a story about recently enacted legislation in Louisiana which will allow school board officials to “approve supplemental classroom materials specifically for the critique of…
What a Coincidence! →
In what is no doubt yet another amazing coincidence to those who don’t accept evolutionary biology, a fish with four, well formed leg-like paddles turns up in the fossil record: The aquatic…
Isn't he even a LITTLE afraid there's a hell? →
So now John McCain is calling Carter a lousy president? Well, if you mean horrible at playing politics and selling your credibility to any group with 30 pieces of silver, and being against GI…
The conservative mind →
Bowers: It must be really scary to be a conservative. To be one, you must live in constant fear of terrorists nuking the United States, of gay people on the verge of convincing you that you…
Extreme regex foo: what you need to know to become... →
This tutorial will go beyond the basics of regular expressions.
5 Regular Expressions Every Web Programmer Should... →
here are the five regular expressions that are the most useful for day-to-day web programming tasks.
Last.fm – the Blog · Developers, developers,... →
The new API introduces a user authentication protocol which for the first time allows applications to create user sessions, bringing both read and write services to web apps, desktop apps and mobile…
Web Services – Last.fm →
The Last.fm API allows anyone to build their own programs using Last.fm data, whether they’re on the web, the desktop or mobile devices.
Have You Heard McCain Was a POW? →
Candidates whose biographies provide compelling campaign material use that fact to their advantage. And John McCain’s biography does just that. Not only is it regularly mentioned explicitly by his…
Classic Clips: Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft Over... →
WTF? “So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.”
Christians Turn on James Dobson →
James Dobson, the Focus on the Family founder and a leader of the Religious Right, was attacking Barack Obama recently because he says Obama was “deliberately distorting the Bible” and has a…
The Website Is Down →
A mashup of true and mostly-true stories from IT hell. Starring Apache, Windows XP, Linux and Halo (among many others)
When is Manual Focus Better than Auto Focus? →
Manual focusing puts the control completely in your hands and will get your images with the right parts in focus.
How Facebook Stores Billions of Photos →
David Gobaud writes “Jason Sobel, the manager of infrastructure engineering at Facebook, gave an interesting presentation titled Needle in a Haystack: Efficient Storage of Billions of Photos at…
Of course, it's Misogyny →
First, let me state this…I am not ranting at either John Martellaro or the iPod Observer. They just happened to get hit, in their story on how too-long fingernails make using the iPod a…
Dodd And Feingold Will Filibuster Telecom Immunity →
Two Senators willing to stand for the Bill of Rights, surely there are more. Please call yours.
It’s Guest Blog Wednesday Featuring: Matt... →
If I could design/redesign Photoshop’s dialogs and palettes
Hi everyone. I’d like to first thank Scott for having me as a guest today and I’d like to thank you for giving some of the most…
Robert Douglass: Wordpress 2.6 features that... →
The Wordpress 2.6 Beta 1 is now available. Hats off to the Wordpress team. Here are some features that we should have in Drupal, too:
A new and improved image editing dialog that offers lots…
Model & Server Tutorials →
By far the most requested addition for the SproutCore site over the last few days has been a tutorial describing how to interface with the server. There is a lot to cover in this area, but you can…
The Logic is Impeccable →
I had a conversation recently that went something like this.
Gotta love that logic.
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SproutCore 0.9.11 - “This one goes to... →
Just a week after releasing the 0.9.10 release, we have a new gem for you called 0.9.11 or “This one goes to 11″. This release includes a number of important bug fixes that have kept some of you…
Jonathan Blum somehow assumes Automator is part of... →
Section: Software + Apps, Microsoft Office, Organization, Productivity, Mac + Computers, Software, Operating Systems, Leopard, OS-X, Tiger, Originals
I was all set to…
Scaring employees into voting for McCain →
We’ll see lots of businesses trying to scare their employees into voting Republican this fall. This email is from a local Tennessee chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors trade group,…
My Photography Workflow →
Probably the question that I get asked more than any other is about my photography workflow. I actually feel like my photography workflow is pretty simple so I thought I’d write up a brief…
Cameras as Weapons →
B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, gives video cameras to Palestinians to document the attacks and abuses they suffer.
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Source: (Notes on) Politics, Theory, &…
Cameras as Weapons →
B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, gives video cameras to Palestinians to document the attacks and abuses they suffer.
Read More…
Source: (Notes on) Politics, Theory, &…
Scaring employees into voting for McCain →
We’ll see lots of businesses trying to scare their employees into voting Republican this fall. This email is from a local Tennessee chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors trade group,…
My Photography Workflow →
Probably the question that I get asked more than any other is about my photography workflow. I actually feel like my photography workflow is pretty simple so I thought I’d write up a brief…
Photographs of “Lost Amazon” Tribe Are Fake →
The photographer who peddled photos of a lost Amazon tribe to news outlets worldwide has admitted they were part of a hoax intended to call attention to dangers posed by Brazil’s logging…
MacBook Air SuperDrive super hack makes it work... →
Filed under: Laptops, Peripherals, Storage
As tnkgrl mentions at the outset of this hack, the MacBook Air SuperDrive is a nice little slice of hotness, retailing for a mere…
Defending McCain's tech illiteracy →
Remember McCain’s answer when asked whether he was a Mac or PC guy? Neither, I’m an illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get. Now picture yourself as…
