I always enjoy Bruce Schneier’s take on security issues, and this article about terrorist’s misunderstood motives is dead on.
It’s a feedback loop with no easy solution.
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/07/eco-tip_batteries.php
New laptop coming this week that will spend most of the time on a desk, so good stuff to know.
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When writing the OOXML documentation for functions, Microsoft rushed to market with a closed, proprietary development process. The result? Significant issues with the documentation of how those functions should operate.
This is the problem with a closed-source mentality to developing “standards.” The process assumes infallibility on the part of the authors. Excel is the best spreadsheet application, hands-down, but it doesn’t mean that Microsoft has the ability or the inclination to really focus on making the standard perfect.
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I was expecting this… please allow me to be the millionth blogger to link to this video today:
http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=iphone
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As a photographer who works with models in most of my work, I found this article interesting, especially #1.
I’m more a fan of brunettes personally, so I’ve never really understood the big deal about blonds, but that’s the best explanation I’ve seen so far.
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After playing around with ExtJs over the last few weeks, I had a thought:
Frameworks like Prototype, JQuery, ExtJs, etc. are big downloads, yet many sites use them. Google has server space and bandwidth to spare. Google has a strong interest in supporting web-based applications. I think it’d be spiffy if Google hosted a few FOSS Javascript, CSS, and image resources, and encouraged all web designers to link to them rather than hosting the files themselves.
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I like my Mac Pro. I don’t regret the purchase, I haven’t missed Windows at all, and I don’t see anything in Windows Vista that I’m going to be jealous of. But there are a few things that Apple needs to get better at. Maybe some of these will be addressed in Leopard, but I’ll keep this a “live document,” adding and removing annoyances as needed.
“Preview” sucks for viewing photos.
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Traffic sucks. Beaumont is, fortunately, not too bad, but Houston and Austin are terrible. Here are some techniques you can use to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem:
http://amasci.com/amateur/traffic/trafexp.html
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My old blog died with my Windows-based server. I have most of the content recovered in various forms (Google caches, etc.), but for now all posts are unpublished. I can probably dig up an old post if someone *really* wants to read it again, but I have no idea if or when I’ll find a way to pump the data into the new blog software (WordPress).
I’ll probably do a lot less politicking on this blog and post more often about photography and programming.
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