Dec 15, 2007
Although I’m about 13 hours late, Pacific time, I’ve turned off all spam filters, including Akismet and Bad Behavior, in an attempt to see just how much spam filtering plugins help. I’ve also disabled DoFollow, for obvious reasons.
There’s more information on the announcement post on the blog that started this day, justaddwater.dk.
Brace for impact, people.
Dec 6, 2007
Why does Peter Ha write for CrunchGear? Or, a more accurately phrased: why does he still write for CrunchGear?
TechCrunch, the massively popular blog about all things web 2.0, posted a recap about the week on CrunchGear. Here’s the part which kind of perturbed me a bit:
[…] our own Peter Ha alleged that the PS3 “stinks,” , and also that Leopard should die, causing an influx of fanboys to leave their folky brand of wisdom …
Dec 6, 2007
I’m honestly a bit puzzled right now. For some reason, as I was browsing a web page in Safari, the fan in my Macbook started to spin, and it got to the point where it must have been spinning full speed, which is quite loud. I looked at my CPU graph from iStat menus and for some reason, both my CPU’s cores were intermittently running at 100%. First, one core would go to 100%, then …
Dec 4, 2007
In these times of hearing all about Iran’s “evil deeds,” this New York Times op-ed piece takes a guess at what their outlook on America could be. Most of it really puts this country into perspective, and I can’t say the future looks too bright.
There are two intelligence analyses that are relevant to the balance of power between the U.S. and Iran — one is the latest U.S. assessment of Iran, which certainly gave …
Dec 3, 2007
Since I’ve installed Leopard, I’ve noticed all the bells and whistles people keep talking about, but one part I haven’t heard anything about is the much-improved printing facilities that Leopard introduced. In Tiger, the printer setup was buried in the Utilities folder, but now in Leopard it’s in plain sight in the System Preferences, and it is much easier to use now.
Instead of …
Dec 1, 2007
Seemingly months after everyone else has marveled at OS X Leopard, I’ve taken the plunge and upgraded from Tiger to Leopard. Instead of upgrading, I decided to wipe the disk (backing up first, of course) and do a clean install. The first time, the install went fine, but Leopard hung with a blue screen when I booted it up the first time. So, I wiped the disk clean, …