March 2007 archive

Google's Matt Cutts Hacked!

I've been reading and enjoying Matt Cutts's blog for several months now. I have some interest in the topic of SEO, which Matt writes about. I like it because Matt seems like a good guy and he shares a lot of insights in to how things work at Google.
I noticed in my feed [...]

Software Inevitably Must Be Free

There is a certain tech "analyst" who likes to troll the GNU/Linux/free software community. I don't want to give him any recognition by name or hyperlink, but his posts FUD bombs can provoke some interesting comments, like the one included later in this post.
Greg Loeppky asks a good question: How many times do we [...]

A Beautiful Troll: Windows Required for GNU/Linux

Starting from slashdot, I was clued in on some good work being done by "Jerry Lee Cooper" over at ZDNet. (Also is getting much diggage.)
In a discussion about how the Linux will not displace Windows:

that wont work without THEFT of intellectual property
Linux looks very interesting, even if some of the screen colours and menu [...]

A Free Culture Acorn Sprouts

I keep half an eye on references to this site by using feeds from Google News and Blog Search to catch links to here or mentions of the site (or me).

A lot of times the feeds turn up some crummy splog scraping my content. A lot of people get up in arms about this, [...]

GNU/Linux Graphics Programs in Ubuntu

My graphics/image manipulation needs are relatively simple. I've gotten by pretty well with MS Paint and IrfanView in Windows.

In the past several months I've started using the GNU Image Manipulation Program (the GIMP!) for Windows and have learned how to fix red eye and make downgraded transparent PNG files that display properly in Internet [...]

Password Safe / Password Gorilla

Updated 20 April 2007: Password Gorilla's author, Frank Pilhofer, contacted me to clarify how permissions work and to investigate the problem I was seeing. Talk about great customer service! See update notes below...

I've been using Password Safe in Windows for many years to manage my passwords. It seemed credible to me because [...]