December 24, 2002

Geek: Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

I can’t remember the first time I saw this, but I was recently reminded of it via BoingBoing and it’s still funny :-)

better !pout !cry
better watchout
lpr why
santa claus <north pole >town

cat /etc/passwd >list
ncheck list
ncheck list
cat list | grep naughty >nogiftlist
cat list | grep nice >giftlist
santa claus <north pole > town

who | grep sleeping
who | grep awake
who | egrep 'bad|good'
for (goodness sake) {
be good
}

December 24, 2002

Happy Holidays

Ok, I’m recycling the card we made last year, but it’s still my favorite picture of Pinto :-)

December 23, 2002

The Clash: Joe Strummer dies

This seems sudden and certainly too soon: “Joe Strummer, lead singer for seminal British punk band the Clash, has died at the age of 50.” We will miss you Joe!

December 22, 2002

Wireless (WiFi) Signal Booster

“The Linksys Wireless Signal Booster piggybacks onto your Linksys Wireless Access
Point (or Wireless Access Point Router) to increase the effective range and
coverage area of the 802.11b network. ” (Thanks John! via SlashDot)

December 20, 2002

XML-RPC to SOAP: A Migration Guide

Neat trick: Wrapping XML-RPC in SOAP (via Sam Ruby)

December 20, 2002

Open Source CMS: eZ Publish

I spent some time today learning about and installing a test version of eZ Publish. I’m still investigating, but so far it seems to have decent workflow and user permissions system. However, it might be overly complex for a blog or small site, but for a site with many contributors and content forms it should be well worth the initial hurdle. I’ll post more as I dig deeper.

December 18, 2002

Improve Your Career with Tomcat and Aspire

“Information technology companies today have a hidden resource that they have
barely started to exploit. IT companies have, over the years, spent a
considerable amount of money equipping themselves with strong relational
database expertise. But these relational teams are traditionally isolated and
kept behind the glass doors, primarily supporting the development teams that
churn out end-user applications. This practice largely continues even today as
the programming face of IT moves to the Web.”
(via ONJava.com)

December 18, 2002

World Trade Center Site Design Concepts

Seven new design concepts for World Trade Center site on display @ LMDC

December 18, 2002

Creative Commons Flash

I finally spent some time checking out the creative commons “get creative” presentation. Very well done. Although, this kind of “creative sharing” has been going on in the Jazz community for sometime without too much friction.

December 18, 2002

Commercialize your dog?

Ok, if this comes to the US, perhaps our dog will be big enough for … “A mobile phone giant has opted to use big dogs as moving billboards to advertise
its new handset. ”

“And the company behind the innovative form of advertising is appealing for
owners of larger dogs to register their pooches for future “dogverts”. ”

From: BBC NEWS Phone giant opts for ‘dogverts’