Woah. I must have been sleeping in a cave somewhere. Thanks to Ars Technica, I was pointed to an Apple page describing 250MB combined iDisk and .Mac Mail storage. It's not a flat-out gig, like GMail, but it's a heckuvalot better than the 15MB for mail, and 100MB for iDisk... I just poked around on... »
I've got a couple of outboard brains. This weblog is one of them, but I also use an app on my PowerBook to store stuff that I don't necessary want Google to find (passwords, source code snippets that don't make sense out of context, list of the members of the Illuminati, etc...) I'd been using... »
OK - this is a blatant plug, but we'll be losing money on the deal, so no worries about conflict of interest ;-) My wife has been running a cookie dough home business - she prepares 2 types of cookie dough each month, and delivers them in frozen, vacuum-sealed packages. For the month of October, she... »
Albert Ip just posted a description of a potential use of Flickr.com: Learning Object Authoring... Looks pretty cool, and perhaps one of the simplest way of doing this (until APOLLO and Pachyderm go live... ;-) ) Update: I had incorrectly typed Albert's last name as "Yip" - Sorry, Albert! All I can think of is... »
Sometime over the weekend, this site received its 30,000th visitor since mid-2003, as recorded by SiteMeter. As I write this, it's sitting at 30,135 visitors (about 100 per day). That's actual human visitors, with image-enabled browsers (bots and spiders aren't included in this, because they don't download the image used by SiteMeter). I'm constantly... »
Wordpress, out of the box, is pretty decent at avoiding spam. It could be better, and there are a few plugins that will help: 3 Strikes Spam Prevention Plugin - Kinda like an email spam filter, calculating "spam scores" for new comments, and killing ones that pass a threshold. Kitten's Spam Words 2.0 - kinda like... »
Looks like our Subversion repository got a bit corrupted today. Here's the instructions to restore, for future quick reference: Subversion's repository database schema has changed occasionally during development. Old repositories, created with a pre-1.0 development version of Subversion, may require the following operation when upgrading. If a schema change happens between Subversion releases X... »
Last time I tried a standalone posting app, it was Ecto, which didn't like Wordpress too much. This time, I'm trying MarsEdit, and have applied a patch to the Wordpress XMLRPC connection by Johann Richard at 'Take the Red Pill'. This patch may behave better with Ecto, as well... I'm pretty impressed with MarsEdit. Looks... »
Yet another conference in Calgary (this one on campus!) that I heard about first via the magic of RSS... New Ways & New Technologies in Social Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts. The items listed in the Conference Program sound pretty interesting. I wonder if this bit may prove to be the most valuable part of the... »
This is pretty cool. The SciQ project - which was one of the early adopters of CAREO (and now APOLLO), is sponsoring a contest to get students to talk about science. The SciQ: Science Revealed - Talk About Science Contest is open to all Alberta students in grades 7, 8 and 9. If you know... »
