• Opening up Commenting

    Posted on December 25, 2003

    I had commenting turned off by default, but I’ve decided to turn it on for a while and see what happens. I had it off originally because there seem to be so many problems with blog spam. But there seem to be quite a few people reading now, and I... [Read More]

  • Alpha Release of MySQL 5.0

    Posted on December 25, 2003

    There’s an alpha release of MySQL 5.0 available. I haven’t tried it out yet, but I use MySQL quite a bit, so I’ll hop on this one pretty soon. This new release includes support for stored procedures, which is one of the commonly sighted shortfalls of MySQL according to business... [Read More]

  • Year End Roundup at textually.org

    Posted on December 24, 2003

    There’s an entry at textually.org linking together the 10 year end posts. I’ve been reading the info at textually and picturephoning on a regular basis, they have great coverage. This year end summary provides a great opportunity to spin through the top items of the year and review ones I... [Read More]

  • What is Blogging All About?

    Posted on December 23, 2003

    There’s an Entry in Seth Finkelstein’s blog pondering why it is that people keep blogs. He mentions some of the common reasons in there, like exposure to a new audience if you’re running a business related blog, and the simple need to communicate which is fulfilled by a daily diary.... [Read More]

  • Excellent Linux 2.6 Changes Summary

    Posted on December 23, 2003

    There’s a great document titled The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6 that I just got finished reading over. An excellent summary of all the things to look for (and to look out for) in the new kernel release. I’ve been running the 2.6test series for a while and I’ve had... [Read More]

  • Linus Responds to SCO Evidence Files

    Posted on December 22, 2003

    There’s a post over at Groklaw with Linus’s response to the files that SCO says were coppied. Basically, it looks like bunk. Which is what a lot of us expected. SCO has tried sighting files which are so heavily standardized that any implementation would look the same. But still, there... [Read More]

  • Vagablog 1.7

    Posted on December 22, 2003

    I’ve released verion 1.7 of Vagablog, although I suspect the change won’t really affect most people. I expanded the amount of memory available for processing the blog list. There used to be a limit of 10 blogs, now it’ll use a lot more (31 is the limit of my testing... [Read More]

  • McLuhan Analysis of Mobile Telephony

    Posted on December 22, 2003

    There’s a post about applying McLuhan’s “Laws of Media” to the mobile telephone. I hadn’t heard of these questions before, and both the article and the discussion around it are very interesting. In the comments there are links to some good sites and papers, so don’t read just the article... [Read More]

  • Yep, Earthquake

    Posted on December 22, 2003

    I finally found the location on the USGS site that has realtime maps of earthquake activity, so I was able to verify the shaking that I felt. It still hasn’t shown up on the list of quakes, but at least the map there told me there was a big quake... [Read More]