Browsing the blog archives for August, 2005

Google Talk

in Tech Stuff

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 [...]

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CSS Whee

in Tech Stuff

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. edit Well, its not right, but it’ll have to do [...]

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From the front line of the Revolution

in Personal

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 [...]

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Several updates to stupendous.net

in Tech Stuff

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 [...]

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Comments are broken

in Tech Stuff

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.

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