Today is my first day at the Yahoo! Launch office in Santa Monica. After two years of working by myself in a home office, it is a thrill to be in a real office environment again. Even though it’s my job to be a computer geek, I supsect that I’m really a “people” person. Many […]
New SpamAssassin
I just upgraded from SpamAssassin 2.42 to SpamAssassin 2.44. So far so good, but then again, not much changed in the code. I don’t run spamd/spamc, so a newer ruleset is the biggest change I can see.
PHPCon East 2003
I’ve been invited to speak at PHPCon East 2003 in April: PHPCon East 2003 – (April 23-25, 2003). PHPCon announces PHPCon East 2003 in New York City. This conference features two days of technical learning with speakers such as Rasmus Lerdorf, Michael Radwin, and Jeremy Zawodny. PHPCon East also adds a third, full day of […]
Security for Whom? – TCPA and Hollywood vs. Open Computing Platforms
The Electronic Frontier Foundation‘s Seth Schoen and Cory Doctorow are speaking at the monthly Los Angeles ACM meeting this week.
Mishe-nichnas Adar…
Today is Rosh Chodesh Adar I. Since Purim is right around the corner, this is supposed to be a very happy time, but something seems terribly off in the universe. Part of me really just wants to block out the rest of the world and just sing the song of the season: משנכנס אדר מרבים […]
Favicon contest: win $5
My good friend Scott has been bugging me for about a week now to get a favicon for radwin.org. I’m not the artist type (I still haven’t gotten past page 10 of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards), so I need some help. Therefore, in good capitalist tradition, I’m going […]
M-x tetris
Just discovered this today (by way of Victor Chang):
MovableType-2.6 release
Contrary to my pessimism yesterday about upgrading software, here’s a release I’m actually interested in: Version 2.6. Version 2.6 is right around the corner. Some new features and improvements included in this planned release [Movable Type News] Most of it doesn’t interest me too much, but I’d probably use Sanitize. I’ve already got an RSD […]
70% considered low voter turnout?
Israeli polls opened about half an hour ago (they’re voting for Prime Minister). There’s little doubt that incumbent Ariel Sharon will beat Amram Mitzna in the election. The cover of last week’s Los Angeles Jewish Journal put it bluntly: Sure, He’ll Win the Election. But Can He Make Peace? Skimming Ha’aretz for some news on […]
Upgrade my servers? Yeah, right.
In software engineering, laziness is a positive attribute. If one can accomplish the same task in 3 lines of code instead of 30, a good engineer opts for the 3-line version. That’s why libraries of code are so popular. Engineers are also risk-averse. Every change you make to the system can possibly de-stabilize it, so […]