I was reading YudelLine today and was intrigued by a pointer to The Internet Sacred Text Archive, and started following some links until I stumbled across the The Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC) Tanach. It’s an incredibly well-annotated copy of the Hebrew Bible, and this online copy is easy to navigate. From a technological standpoint I’ve […]
Amy’s Kitchen Kosher Certification
I’ve often seen Amy’s Kitchen vegetarian frozen meals at supermarkets but haven’t purchased them in the past because they didn’t display a hekhsher. Ariella sent email on Sunday to ask if they’d consider getting rabbinic supervision and they replied back with some good news: Amy’s Kitchen’s Kosher certification is from Rabbi Dov Hazdan of Ner […]
Biking to work
I rode my bike to work today for the first time in 4 years. It felt pretty good. I really love that Italian steel frame. After staring at the Santa Clara Valley Bikeways Map for several hours, I decided to take Middlefield Road for most of the way, and then hop on the VTA Light […]
Hackers need offices, not cubicles
Paul Graham’s essay Great Hackers is a good read. The most compelling statement he made was a rant against cubicles: If you want to get real work done in an office with cubicles, you have two options: work at home, or come in early or late or on a weekend, when no one else is […]
Palo Alto Green
We went to Mitchell Park last night to hear a jazz/swing concert and stopped by the Palo Alto Green Energy booth. We just moved in on Sunday and didn’t know that the municipal utilities offered a wind and solar energy program. So we signed up on the spot (and got 3 free compact florescent light […]
OSCON 2004 Sessions
I haven’t attended too many tutorials or sessions this year. Yesterday I saw Jim Winstead’s Practical I18N with PHP and MySQL and David Sklar’s Cleaning Up SOAP. Right now I’m sitting in Adam Trachtenberg’s PHP 5 + MySQL 5 = A Perfect 10. He quipped that it really should’ve been called PHP 5 + MySQL […]
HTTP Caching and Cache-busting for Content Publishers
Slides are now online (HTML, PPT) for today’s talk on HTTP Caching and Cache-busting for Content Publishers. Abstract: A user’s web experience can often be improved by the proper use of HTTP caches. Radwin discusses when to use and when to avoid caching, and how to employ cache-busting techniques most effectively. Radwin also explains the […]
OSCON 2004
I just arrived in Portland, Oregon. I’ll be speaking about HTTP caching and cache-busting at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention tomorrow. If the talk goes well, I’ll propose it for ApacheCon this fall. The conference hotel was all booked up by the time I made my travel arrangements, so I’m staying at the closest available […]
Goodbye, 310. Hello, 650.
Goodbye, LA Times. Hello, San Jose Mercury News. Goodbye, Shtibl Minyan. Hello, Congregation Kol Emeth. Goodbye, Ralph’s. Hello, Safeway. Goodbye, Yahoo! Santa Monica. Hello, Yahoo! Sunnyvale. Goodbye, the 405 and the 10. Hello, 101 and 280.
Open HTTP redirectors
There has been much discussion about open e-mail relays, but very little about open HTTP redirectors. An open redirector is hosted by foo.com, but will unintentionally send you to bar.com. This can have interesting effects on PageRank or can trick users into clicking on something that isn’t what it seems. After many months of abuse […]