Cindy Sheehan, a mother of soldier Casey Sheehan who was killed in Iraq, has been protesting outside of President Bush’s ranch during the president’s 5-week vacation. This Wednesday, a memorial will be held in Davis Square to call for an end to the war. Our vigils will be simple and dignified. Together, we’ll acknowledge […]
Summary: How to forego categories and date-based archives and turn your Wordpress-powered blog into a tag-based blogging system. Like del.icio.us, but a blog. Like most bloggers, I don’t get a ton of front-page traffic. My visitor logs show that most of my visitors come via google, and land on a specific page. Given […]
bani writes “Spammer Scott Levine was convicted of massive data theft from Acxiom Corporation. Prosecutors say his company, the now-defunct Snipermail.com, stole 1.6 billion customer records from Acxiom and sold the data. He faces a maximum of 640 years in prison under the law, though he will likely be sentenced to far less. […]
Netmonger writes ‘This Japanese guy overclocked a Pentium 4 to 7.132GHz!! The system managed to calculate pi to 1 million decimal places in 18.516 seconds, setting the world’s record.’ The article notes that a Pentium 4 had been overclocked faster earlier this year, but at that speed it was not possible for the […]
Was walking through Cambridge’s Central Square yesterday and came across Tom selling t-shirts. Boston commuters might recognize the Central Square is for Lovers t-shirt, because it was just featured in a Metro article. Yeah, so I bought a t-shirt for $15 and supported my local artist. So should you. You can order the t-shirts at […]
From the inbox: Little Johnny asks: “Daddy, how was I born?” Dad says: Ah, my son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway! “Well, you see your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on MSN. Then I set […]
Information Week has an introductory article on the benefits of using wikis for business Content management systems will always have their place in the publishing world, but they’ve never been the best tools for business collaboration. A simple open-source app called the wiki may soon rule the knowledge management roost.
One of the new features of Wordpress 1.5 that I don’t really like is the lack of control over how many posts appear on a page. You can set the max number of posts via the Options, Reading section in the admin panel. Unfortunately, it sets a maximum posts-per-page value that applies across the […]
This past weekend I came across an article in the most recent issue of Make Magazine that talked about the possibility of installing Linux on an ipod . I read through some of the documentation on the ipodlinux website, and using the ipodlinux installer I was able to successfully boot my ipod into Linux. Unfortunately, […]
So there’s a new batch of recruitment ads on the MBTA’s red line. ITA software is looking for programmers, and the ad campaign makes use of puzzles as a form of preliminary candidate qualification. If this looks familiar to you, it’s because last year google launched a similar campaign. Google challenged potential candidates to find the […]
