A three-finger salute for David J. Bradley
You’ve probably never heard of David J. Bradley but he’s the guy responsible for the Ctrl-Alt-Delete combination that every Windows user has come to know and hate. However it’s actually a case of good intensions gone bad through over-use by Microsoft. Bradley intended it as a tool for developers who would need to reboot their […]
Comment Spam II
Jay Allen mentioned his approach to blocking spam. In the little bit of research I’ve done since writing the last post I think his sounds the coolest (definitely not the easiest, but the coolest). I think I’ll implement it as soon as I get a chance so… get your spam in now! Free-for-all posting expires […]
Comments spam
Lately I’ve been getting comments posted to old entries that have been linked to from somewhere, comments that are really just spam. This means somewhere out there someone wrote a MoveableType spamming engine (on the assumption that spammers wouldn’t bother manually adding spam comments to stories via the web interface) which seems like a lot […]
Cold Action
This is probably one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen: Cold Action.
Joel’s new office is very, very nice
Joel of “Joel on Software” has moved his company into their new offices and they are very, very nicely designed:
Power. Every desk has twenty, that’s right, twenty outlets. Four of them are colored orange and have uninterruptible power coming off of a UPS in the server closet, so you don’t need a UPS in every […]
The ACLU vs. JetBlue and CAPS II
The ACLU has stepped in and created a webpage for JetBlue customers to use the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to find out if their info was passed off to Torch Concepts: Feature on JetBlue’s Unauthorized Release of Passenger Data.
I wonder if Canadians can use the FOIA? I wonder if Canadians were part of the […]
Film club
This just in:
Welcome to FILM CLUB:
1st Rule of Film Club: Tell everyone about Film Club
We’re sick of Canadian filmsdashing in and out of theatres so fast you’d think they’d stolen something from the lobby.
With no money to market them, most Canadian films don’t come with the built-in audiences that Miramax or Universal can create. And […]
UTF-8 Decoding
Hixie has written an interesting “Crash course in UTF-8 mathematics”. If you looked at Hixie’s article and thought “what the hell is this?” you’re probably not a programmer and can pretend this never happened.
Hawksley who?
I’ve never really been a fan before but Hawksley Workman’s newest single “Anger is Beauty” is excellent. And he’s from Toronto to boot.
Michael Moore Strikes Back
Tired of suffering attacks from those who would seek to discredit Bowling For Columbine, Michael Moore heads them off face-on by dissecting the attacks with yet more facts and statistics:
So, how crazy are the things they’ve said about “Bowling for Columbine?” Here are my favorites:
“That scene where you got the gun in the […]