February 2008 archive

Leap Post

I remember in 2000 there was some residual Y2K dread that things might have gone leftwards on February 29th, because of the funny business around years divisible by 100 not being leap years except when divisible by 400. If we would have been a bit faster on the learning curve, that would have created [...]

2007 Traffic Stats for 'Moving to Freedom'

This overlaps with the one year stats posted back in July 2007, but I'd like to switch to calendar year accounting, so there you go.
There are some numbers from last year that can serve as the 2006 traffic stats, although they include some traffic from January 2007 since I generated them for the six month [...]

Corporate I/T in a Nutshell

I wouldn't know anything about this from my past experience:

From past experience, I've observed a trend where these companies (whether it's Oracle, SAP, or you name it) make big promises, a company "bites" (knowing that the problems outlined really ARE big issues they'd LOVE to solve), and then the vendor proceeds to bleed millions of [...]

Are you seeing double?

Are you a subscriber to this blog, and if so, do you sometimes see duplicate posts in the feed?
To keep an eye on things, I subscribe through Google Reader and the FeedBurner email subscription service. I haven't seen any duplicates, but loyal reader Paul S. wrote me yesterday to say he sometimes gets multiple [...]

Tomboy: Bulk import files with the D-Bus interface and Python

Last month I mentioned I wanted to import a bunch of notes from my old PIM into Tomboy, but expected a lot of copying and pasting busywork since I didn't know how to do a mass import. Fortunately, a real live Tomboy developer dropped by to clue me in on the D-Bus interface with [...]

Your blog's 'about' page might get you a job at Google

Or maybe just an email from a Google recruiter that doesn't ultimately lead anywhere, but is still kind of fun to get.
What about you?
Do you have an "about" page for your blog or web site? I hope so, because if I happen across your site, I'd like to learn something about you. Find [...]

When will the copyright holders want control over our mind's eye?

I read with interest Crosbie Fitch's rant: "In respect to the artist - NO PHOTOS".
With this statement: "anything that is available to the senses of the public visitor is available to be recorded by that visitor," I got to thinking about how copyright owners will try to control their "property" in the future.

It seems the [...]

Converting PDFs into Image Files (Citimortgage PDF Reprise)

I didn't receive a response from Citimortgage about their ghastly PDF files, but on my next visit I was again able to view my statements in Evince, the GNOME PDF viewer. (Although they were still obnoxiously large files for the amount of data represented.)
But then on my next visit after that, the following month's [...]

WordPress XHTML Validator Plugin

WordPress is very good about supporting standards and producing valid markup, and at least when I started using it, it had a link in the standard theme to proclaim the validity of its pages and prove it to you by taking you to the W3C Markup Validation Service. A lot of people never pay [...]

Down in the Caucus, Out in the Street

Went to the Minnesota Democratic caucuses tonight. What a madhouse. What a zoo. There must have been five hundred or more people at the middle school. (Updated, 10 February 2008: Just learned that there were 2,600 attendees in my Senate District, where there had only been 233 in 2004, and 95 [...]