Ars Technica writes: As of April, fewer than 6 out of 10 people use Internet Explorer. The browser trends that we’ve noted over the past several months are continuing with no sign of alteration: IE continues to slip, Firefox and Opera are fairly static, Safari is very slowly moving forward, and Chrome is pushing ahead [...]

Tynt.com is trying to enhance the internet by breaking copy and paste. Their Javascript silently modifies whatever you copy from a webpage so that they can “leverage this behavior into more traffic, higher search rank and more.” Good grief. Gruber does a good job of explaining why this is bad (“It’s a bunch of user-hostile [...]

“Because of the recent growth due to Facebook Connect and internationalization, we are running out of our allocated 32bit UIDs.” Running out. Of 32bit UIDs. I wish I had Facebook’s problems.

This is my keyboard. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

Kind of a mish-mosh of snippets below. A lot of them are useful if you’re managing servers. The rest are useful more generally and occasionally. Many of these utilities may already be on your system, others you may have to install. (Hopefully you’re using a Linux distro that has all of these in its standard [...]

I love how the word hacker is slowly acquiring connotations of the word artist. Creating art with computers isn’t really new (depending on your definition of art), but computers are definitely being associated with art more and more. A Wikipedia entry for Hacker Artist was created in 2006. The image above is a page from [...]

I understand why people sign up for services like Spam Arrest. I really do and I harbor no grudges against them. I don’t like spam. But I rarely go through the rigamarole required to verify myself when I send email to users of those kinds of systems. It’s a pain in the ass. Maybe I [...]

The new web-based AWS Management Console is a fantastic tool for managing your EC2 instances, images, EBS volumes and more. Amazon did a super job on this. I have to keep reminding myself that Amazon is a book store.

Last week I completed the move of a web site hosted on a physical server to Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing platform. The experience was educational to say the least and so far I’m pretty happy with things. I’ll post a follow-up after I’ve had a few more weeks of experience with it. In the meantime, [...]

Damn. Gmail won’t give me my contact data at the moment. I need to ship a Christmas gift and I can’t get the address. This highlights an important facet of storing data in the cloud. Have a backup. In this instance, I fail (no backup) and I’ll have to wait. A similar incident a few [...]