Saving a Few Nanoseconds – Worse Than Failure: Last month, in Saving a Few Minutes, we learned about G.R.G.’s experience with RUNPROG, one of the earliest examples of The Inner-Platform Effect I’ve ever seen. RUNPROG lived on in ancient supercomputer with an operating system that lacked the concept of search paths. Instead of a simple, [...]

One of my favorite web sites has received two-week notice to find itself a new web host. To make things worse, they got slashdotted today, the site was pretty much obliterated within the first few minutes. Cryptome is basically a freedom of information web site. Their thing is to post dossiers of information that is [...]

Due to popular demand, I am going to start writing again. I had been bullshitting around simply by blaming my job on my absent writing over the past year. It is not exactly bullshit, I have been working like a dog, no doubt about it. Still, I need to find a way to set some [...]

Today was the first day that I really spent a few hours just watching Joost content. For those of you that missed the memo, try the Wikipedia entry on Joost. The service works on three very simple concepts: 1. Ad-supported content, so it is free to watch. 2. The content is licensed, so there is [...]

I have three Joost invites. They are available on a first come basis with the usual pecking order: #asp regulars Mac users Everyone else Bribes are of course welcome, or maybe you have yet to buy one of my two books. I also have bad news for the mac-using swine: you need an Intel mac [...]

Finally! I managed to sit down and write a short essay, one more addition to my small collection of stories about my former military service. The essay is titled Army Food and is available under the Creative Commons License. Technorati Tags: History, writing, military

Instead it throws an exception, even if it is obvious that the value does exist. I have a few drop down lists that I don’t want to let them start with the top item in the list. Instead I want to insert an item zero that says “Please Select” so I can use a range [...]

This is even funnier within the scope of my company because our servers are named after Winnie the Pooh‘s characters, and yes, we got one called Piglet. Even more funnier because right after I sent this cartoon to one of my coworkers, the Piglet server died. Technorati Tags: Internet, Politics

It was exactly 99 years ago that the United States of America found itself in a state of war against the Kingdom of Spain, in what we now call the Spanish American War. Why? There was a rebellion in Cuba and the Spanish could not put it down. The US threatened the Spanish to fix [...]

Testing how email notification works on WordPress with Ecto. Technorati Tags: Test