Software

Today, using a gift certificate that I got from Tyler for my birthday I went out and grabbed Quicksilver which is book one of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. I haven't finished Cryptonomicon just yet, but I'm fairly close and was so blown away by

Troutgirl says that this is the year of python [http://troutgirl.com/blog/index.php?/archives/45_Year_of_Python.html], and I have to agree. I've been seeing python in the news and blogosphere a lot in recent months. I'm just glad to hear that

Saw this on Slashdot: > In a recent talk I said something that upset a lot of people: that you could get smarter programmers to work on a Python project than you could to work on a Java project. I didn't mean by this that Java programmers are

From BoingBoing [http://www.boingboing.net/2004/08/12/airport_express_cryp.html] comes news that DVD Jon -- famous for breaking the encryption system used on DVDs -- has just broken the encryption method used to stream audio to the Airport Express. > I've released JustePort [http:

Found this [http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/DaneseCooper/20040723#what_if_mozilla_were_to1] , couldn't stop laughing... > "Show of hands...How many of you use Internet Explorer?". Probably 99 times out of 100 when he asks that question all the hands go up, right?

According to the IEBlog [http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2004/07/23/193120.aspx] (Weblog of people who make IE): > "IEv6x is the Courtney Love browser in a world of Kirsten Dunst browsers" For better illustration: BrowserCeleb it most resemblesIEMozilla/Firefox, Safari, OperaUntil Microsoft can become

According to eWeek [http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1621463,00.asp]; Mozilla has a flaw in it that lets links run programs. The Mozilla Group has confirmed [http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=154] the flaw, but unlike Microsoft, they have a fix [http://update.mozilla.

Great news for RSS lovers on the Mac. Apple has just announced that Safari (their web browser) will support RSS internally. This is bad for the folks that make NetNewsWire, but I'm sure they will find ways to add value to their product that Safari does not supply.

If you have a Mac and can't recall your password, Mount the drive as a firewire drive and from the terminal of the other computer type> strings -8 /Volumes/MyOtherComputer/var/vm/swapfile0 |grep -A 4 -i longname And you may just get your password shown back

The main index and date pages had some javascript issues for the past week, also the pages were not rendering properly in IE after I added the google site search at the top of the page. People are starting to want full content RSS/Atom feeds, I caved and now