Lately, in between wedding preparations and other goings on of late, I’ve been doing some navel gazing and thinking about my enthusiasms and what’s next. And, there’s one conclusion to which I’ve come, which is yet half-formed but I think interesting to admit and explore.
You see, the realization to which I’ve come is [...]
After a bit of a hiatus from it, I’m again back to using NewsRiver (with my own modifications) as my primary feed reader. NetNewsWire was starting to feel stagnant to me again, and my only real gripe with NewsRiver was that it seemed to be choking on an unknown few of my feeds.
So, [...]
Here’s another random call for support from my blog-friends out there:
In Firefox, when viewing raw XML, a basic style is applied which does some pretty printing on the XML. It says something like, “This XML file does not appear to have any style information…”
Well lately, on my install of Firefox on the [...]
Nothing like firewall rules to make me feel like a moron. I recently wiped and reinstalled OpenWRT on my WRT54G router. Before the wipe, I had firewall rules which forwarded port 80 to a web server on my home LAN behind the router.
The nice part was that I could access that server [...]
After reading Kottke’s post about indieKarma, I’ve signed up and dropped the code into my blog template in a crass and bald-faced move to monetize my blog. We’ll see what happens – and let me know if the thing becomes too annoying or whatnot. It seems like an interesting concept.
Just thinking further [...]
I’ve just read blog posts from Tom Coates and Rafe Colburn talking about time spent playing World of Warcraft that might have been better spent on more worthwhile pursuits – such as writing, hacking, reading, getting outside, etc.
Well, the first thing I have to say is that there’s nothing inherently wrong with WoW. [...]
If you’ve yet to check out the new Inform 7, “A Design System for Interactive Fiction Based on Natural Language,” you really need to do so.
Back when I was a wee lad with access to an assortment of Commodore 64, Apple ][, and Atari 800 computers, text adventures pretty much had me in their [...]
