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July 2004 Archives

Giants kick butt
The Giants provide some serious retribution for the complete game shutout that Matt Morris pitched a few weeks ago.
July 31, 2004 - 133 words, 3 comments

Thinkpad "piscles"
My laptop has started having LCD problems.
July 30, 2004 - 108 words, 6 comments

Hamilton Beach Stay or Go makes terrible coffee
The coffee from this machine is vile. It tastes bad and smells worse.
July 30, 2004 - 115 words, 106 comments

Calvoter.org hiring
The non-profit voter information site is looking for a technology director.
July 29, 2004 - 126 words

New comment spam technique
Comment spammers are filling innocent blogs with spam links and then spamming those URLs into other blogs in a roundabout way to increase search engine rankings.
July 29, 2004 - 373 words, 29 comments

RSS Scaling session
For a session like this, it seems that a collaborative workspace would be a natural fit.
July 29, 2004 - 40 words

SimpleComments and MT3
An update for SimpleComments that supports MT3.
July 27, 2004 - 18 words, 4 comments

Dirify in PHP
A port of Movable Type’s dirify function to PHP.
July 27, 2004 - 386 words, 11 comments

ACL
While playing soccer, I tore my ACL, the ligament that holds the knee together.
July 27, 2004 - 544 words, 101 comments

Telemachus and HTTP
The end of gladiatorial combat and HTTP error messages.
July 26, 2004 - 86 words, 5 comments

Close Cut
When clippers slip.
July 24, 2004 - 50 words, 2 comments

Bloglines and Firefox fix
Fixing an error with Firefox and Bloglines
July 20, 2004 - 112 words, 28 comments

Google offers Picasa for free
Google makes its new photo management application available for free.
July 19, 2004 - 21 words, 4 comments

Google on the desktop
Google picks up Picasa, giving them an important foothold on people’s PCs.
July 13, 2004 - 555 words, 8 comments

Fresh paint
I started refactoring the site and ended up with a new design.
July 8, 2004 - 457 words, 14 comments