The big news today was of course the Google Talk mini launch.
But, can Google make a difference in the IM space?
I think so, and here’s why:
Google intends to ‘Federate’ its service with other services. This is clearly part of their intent. How successful they are depends on whether or not they can convince the big [...]
Oh man, I tell ya, learning new web centric stuff is annoying. Take CSS for example.
All I want is the content to resize automatically, but not allow it to be smaller than the image at the top, and the navbar needs to be on the right! bah.
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Well, its not right, but it’ll have to do [...]
My bit of philosophy for today.
There are those of us in the tech industry who believe we’re the front line warriors for the next revolution.
Revolutions have in the past been fought with swords and fire, with guns and cannons. The next revolution is one fought with words. With thought. With ideas and with communication.
But what [...]
Okay,
In an effort to make my life easier and to actually make this site useful, I’ve fixed some things.
Comments should now work! Also, I am using the WP-Hashcash plugin which, in addition to the other stuff I’ve already done, should completely eliminate spam from my blog. I’m pretty happy about that.
I’ve put a nice [...]
Ugh, sorry. If you’ve ever tried to add a comment, its broken. I think the upgrade to 1.5.2 did it. Not sure. I’m trying to figure it out.
Update: 2:30am
After quite a few hours, I turned off “Blacklist comments from open and insecure proxies.” and it suddenly started working.
Two problems I see with Wordpress.
Page load speed
With every page making multiple requests to the database (up to 8 requests currently for me), the number of requests per second is pretty much limited to how many SQL queries per second you can execute. On a slower machine with only a couple of internal disks, you [...]
Okay, this is just annoying.
Microsoft, in their supreme arrogance, decided to implement certain limits in Windows XP Professional to slow the rate of trojans and viruses in the wild. Unfortunately, these limits equate to meaning that if you run a peer to peer app and something else like a web browser or an online game, [...]