Archive for November, 2007
As noted earlier, Librarything is a handy place to post books and an example of new media working together with, rather than competing with, old media. Which is why I am rather frustrated that wordpress is doing some kind of censoring of Librarything widgets in the borders of blogs hosted on wordpress.com. Why [...]
It seems that the sub-prime mess will have even more fallout than I’d thought back in this post in April. I’d thought about the global connections but there are a few things happening that could make this a really sticky wicket, and the fallout could well be much larger than anyone’s allowing right [...]
Now we know the Mall owners are scared, really scared, of new competition (revised 15 November 2007)
Here’s an interesting and important legal decision that will have some very real urban design/architectural implications. It’s yet another example of small, local and very particularized developments eclipsing centralized, consolidated, and homogenized ones.
It’s also interesting from another point of view: what information we get from this lawsuit. Lawsuits are actually very [...]
Ok, another new theme, another chance lost.
All that I would like is a theme that is:
1. NOT fixed width
2. Can have light letters on a dark backround
3. Not be really weird or unusual.
It would be really nice, but not necessary, for the theme to have a customizable header.
There are so many, many ways to make [...]
Responding to my comments, Chris Castle wants to make three points:
First, I’d probably pay more attention to you, whoever you are, if you would sign a real name to just one of your various posts.
Second, you take the point out of context–the parasitic behavior is the trading of illegal copies. I’ve never had a problem [...]
Hat Tip: Distrowatch
Well SuSE has joined the band wagon, and has issued Live CD’s with a click to install option. This is great because you can test out if SuSE works with your hardware, and if you are happy, just install. There is a Gnome and a KDE version available here:
ftp://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/opensuse/distribution/10.3/iso/cd
Chris Castle has a long rant about Comcast’s blocking the Bit Torrent protocol, or to be more precise he has a long rant about the many who are criticizing Comcast; it seems he is a little upset that many have objections to Comcast’s actions, and that a consensus exists that committing fraud in the name [...]
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