Category Archives: Computers
Technorati and Newsweek Join Forces
September 19, 2005 – 2:15 pm
I didn’t learn of this until I happened to post something with just the right tags. Then suddenly I started getting dozens of referrals from MSNBC’s Newsweek section. The online versions of Newsweek and the Washington Post now show related Technorati results in a sidebar. This should help Technorati stand up against the advent of […]
Armchair Archeology
September 15, 2005 – 8:21 am
Using satellite images from Google Maps and Google Earth, an Italian computer programmer has stumbled upon the remains of an ancient villa. Luca Mori was studying maps of the region around his town of Sorbolo, near Parma, when he noticed a prominent, oval, shaded form more than 500 metres long. It was the meander of […]
Filosofo Comments Preview Now on WP-Plugins.org
September 3, 2005 – 4:52 pm
I’ve posted the source of my WordPress blog plugin, Filosofo Comments Preview at the WordPress Plugin Repository. You can see the source or view the wiki. And if you use Subversion, you can get the latest version from http://svn.wp-plugins.org/filosofo-comments-preview/. For example, on a Linux machine you might type svn co http://svn.wp-plugins.org/filosofo-comments-preview/ to “check out,” […]
Opera Giveaway
August 30, 2005 – 1:39 pm
I’m a Firefox man myself, but I respect Opera. Usually you have to pay to register your copy or put up with sidebar ads. But today you can get a free registration code from Opera, as part of its tenth anniversary celebrations. (It’s really that old?)
Happy Birthday Windows 95
August 24, 2005 – 10:26 pm
Slashdot reminds us that today is the tenth anniversary of the debut of Windows 95: As part of the launch, Microsoft paid $12,000,000 for the rights to use the Rolling Stones’ song “Start Me Up” (containing the prophetic line ‘You make a grown man cry’). “ Nice. But the truth is, despite its problems, Windows […]
WordPress Upgrade
August 17, 2005 – 10:54 am
I just upgraded the software that runs this blog, from WordPress 1.5.1.3 to 1.5.2. Everything seems to have made a smooth transition. I did notice that my new Filosofo Comments Preview plugin for WordPress was missing some variable names in WordPress 1.5.2, but a few quick changes and I have the new version ready to […]