First of all, I have to say that WordPress rocks. I've gone through just about every blogging / CMS / Wiki / whatever-based tool out there, and WordPress is absolutely the best I've seen.
I do have some reservations, of course. Future-dated posts should show up on the Dashboard in chronological order by …
...is that everyone has the same ones.
Reading Defense Tech (as usual) I came across this quote about Israel using undercover special-ops teams who pass for Palestinian:
Of the 2,200 arrests Israelis made in the West Bank last year, about 1,500 were conducted by special operation forces (SOF …
In my professional capacity as head geek at a mid-sized small business in Los Angeles, I deal with a lot of bad tech support. A lot. I've seen the excellent (Xerox), the good (HP Large Format Printer Support), and the incredibly bad (HP Consumer Printer Support).
Technically speaking, I'm still …
Del.icio.us is a hip, cutting-edge bookmark-handling service. It lets you share bookmarks with other people in a number of ways that are much more powerful than they appear at first. It's elegant and easy to use.
I never use it. I use Furl.net instead, a service that …
A Theory of Power, Jeff Vail's Critique of Hierarchy & Empire
"While fighting to gain control of the province of Bactria, Alexander the Great was confronted by the swarming tactics of Scythian horse-archers. His primary unit--the Macedonian Phalanx--could not cope with the mobile, pulsing, ranged attacks of these units, which would …
This American Life is one of the best shows on the radio. This particular episode, Lock Up, has one of the funniest bits I've heard since "Squirrel Cop."
Note that the funny bit is Act 2, and there's some pretty seriously non-funny bits before you get there. All worth listening …
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I'm working full-time now as head geek at a large photo lab in Los Angeles. We've been burning customer files to CD and DVD, then handwriting customer information on the disk with Sharpies. This seems pretty unprofessional to me, so one of my first moves was to find some better …
Learning about Linux really is a constant series of cool discoveries. I've just discovered Kernel Traffic (KT). KT is a condensed version of several mailing lists covering Linux development. There are more then 3000 messages a week; reading all the traffic on all the lists would be a full-time job …
As a computer consultant, I call tech support hotlines for a number of different commercial software and hardware products; almost universally the level of support is execrable. After waiting on hold for too long, I speak with a person who knows less than I do about the product they are …