Comment Spam
I’ve noticed that ever since I moved this site to WordPress 2.x, I get comment spam (from online casinos) but only on two posts—two entries that mention WordPress in the… Read more »
Category: General
Library 2.0
Google is really good at illustrating the “echo chamber” effect that certain clusters of blogs create for one another. A set of search results contains many links that point back… Read more »
DDQ – Digital Document Quarterly
I’m not sure why I get this newsletter in my email from time to time, but it’s always an interesting read. Some might call it quirky—and the writing style and… Read more »
Symantec Anti-Virus .RAR problem
There’s some level of irony at work here… In the darker reaches of the net where file sharers trade illicit bits with one another, the compression scheme of choice is… Read more »
IT Pro site launched
Apple has launched a website dedicated to IT Professionals. From the introductory text: “…Combining the power of UNIX with industry-leading ease of use, Apple offers a unique value proposition for… Read more »
WordPress 2.0 RC3
Converted iNode over to Release Candidate 3 for WordPress 2.0. Seems to work fine—at last. For a while there, major portions of the admin interface didn’t work at all. Solution… Read more »
Smaller than a GIF
Had a bit of a snow day today so I had a chance to catch up on a couple of podcasts, the best of the day being the Dan Bricklin… Read more »
Wikipedia and Britannica compared
Nature (Number 438, 900-901 (15 December 2005) | doi:10.1038/438900a) has an interesting article comparing the frequency of errors in both Wikipedia and Britannica—the error rate is similar. Basically, 42 entries… Read more »
Google Widgets
No, Google’s not a portal (yet) but they keep getting closer… Google Widgets Apple has a java-based widget system with Dashboard, Microsoft’s in the game with Gadgets, Yahoo! purchased Konfabulator… Read more »
Voyager timeout fix – part II
Last week I posted an entry on a fix for the stealth timeout in our Voyager catalog. This is just a short update to say that while it seemed to… Read more »