Jul 15, 2009 0
Just as I was starting to feel settled in and enjoying the speed of Firefox 3.5 (with Gears – yay!), a security vulnerability has been found in the JIT JavaScript engine that makes FF3.5 so snappy. The temporary solution is to go into about:config and disable it.
I’m very, very crankie right now. I swear to god, I hope they’re quick about fixing it. Safari is feeling mighty close…
Jul 15, 2009 0
Haven’t gotten around to installing it yet, but last week wp-Typography (a merge between wp-Hyphenate and wp-Typogrify) for WordPress was released under a beta version. The author has also factored out the functional code into a separate PHP package for typography.
Jul 15, 2009 0
Google Gears (0.5.29) has just been released and now works with Firefox 3.5. I’ve only tested it so far with WordPress.
Jul 11, 2009 2
I was wondering why my BT Home Hub 2.0 router would keep resetting/rebooting after about 3 minutes of a outbound activity. Benign things like uploading FTP files to my webserver. Infuriating, since my client was waiting for these files and it was looking like I’d have to courier DVDs across the ocean.
This had been happening for months and I started to get suspicious that it might be BT doing something sneaky like sending a reboot command to the router. After all, they update the firmware remotely and silently with out telling you. Who knows what else they can do?
Jul 9, 2009 0
This “article” on the BBC Magazine site wrings its hands and cries:
Sat-nav clearly suits an era which has given up on understanding the roads as a coherent, logical system – an era in which map-reading may be going the way of obsolete skills like calligraphy and roof-thatching.
I honestly wish I knew more about how the editorial process in the mainstream media works. I can’t fathom the genesis of this story and I can’t understand the fear-mongering behind it or why its acceptable to crank out a fluff-piece that does nothing but weep about the loss of our humanity (which isn’t happening, in case you were wondering). And yes, I am aware that this is quite a common pattern, particularly on slow news days.
