Archive for June, 2005

Cool Meta Tag and the Most Concise Blog, Ever

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

Found in the Whois Source website code:
<meta name=”jedi-mind-trick” content=”You will bookmark this site and use it a lot.”></meta>
John Graham Cumming’s blog (the one and only entry):
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May 26, 2005: I don’t have one; I don’t have the time

“In god We Trust?”

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

A college student in California, writing a paper for an English class about the history of Christianity in the United States, used the word “God” (big ‘G’), and was failed for it. Her professor said that it (the use of a big ‘G’, as opposed to vague references to a “Christian god”, apparently) “would offend [...]

Open Source Software and the Free Software Foundation

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

I love free and open source software. In fact, I use open source software for database management, blogging, blog reading, web browsing, and doing dozens of other daily tasks. I love Linux, MySQL, PHP, and Firefox, in particular. Ocassionally, I even contribute some code – a script or function, usually – to the world, myself, without any licensing, whatsoever. I have a real problem with the core philosophy of the GNU project and Free Software Foundation, however, that software should not have owners and should always be “free” (in the sense that source code should always be available and users should always have the right to modify and redistribute it).

White Collar Crime and Punishment

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

I happened to catch a news segment, several days ago, on white collar criminals (in particular, the conviction of Dennis Kozlowski, former CEO of Tyco). Several talking heads were debating whether or not “white collar” crimes are victimless crimes and whether or not “white collar” criminals deserve to be punished.
Speaking as a business owner, I [...]

Kelo Fallout

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

I had to jump on the bandwagon, here, and comment on the Kelo case (KELO et al v. CITY OF NEW LONDON et al). For those who don’t know, the Kelo case was brought by a homeowner (Kelo) against the city of New London, CT, because the city intended to force homeowners off their land [...]

MIT Weblog Survey

Monday, June 27th, 2005

Help them out!

Want a Free iPod?

Monday, June 27th, 2005

I do! At the advice of buddy Phil, I joined up at freeipods.com. The deal is pretty simple – you take advantage of an offer by a known company (some of which cost under $5) and get 5 people to do the same. The company makes its money off of referral fees from the companies [...]

SERVER MOVE COMPLETE!

Monday, June 27th, 2005

After a great many – and I mean many – hassles, I have gotten this site moved. To the best of my knowledge, only one feature (part of the PCB ‘99 site) is temporarily disabled. The whole site has a new look, and the EdBlog is now powered by the wonderful WordPress software. This means [...]

SERVER MOVE

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005

After many delays, I am moving this site to a different server and a different architecture, today, June 15th. This has involved recoding nearly the entire site – an enormous undertaking – so a very few features/pages are temporarily unavailable or disabled. Please bear with me during the transition! Thanks.