Monday, December 15, 2008
Soreness continues apace. We removed 5 small trees Saturday using a rented electric chainsaw. Maybe gas powered would have required less work on my part, not sure. A few of the trees were against the house and interfering with gutters and power lines, along with being generally unmaintainable without a cherry picker or some crazy [...]
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Wagoner defends GM’s reliance on SUVs. In response to analysts’ concerns about GM’s dwindling liquidity in light of the latest slide in demand for its most profitable vehicles and the jump in raw material costs, Wagoner responded that “under any scenario we see, we’re good until the end of the year.” What an incredible country [...]
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Biella, The article is so drastically tilted, I almost have to believe it’s a joke; seriously, is this copied from The Onion? I tend to think that treating anyone as a member of a protected class in order to ensure their participation is more divisive than any difference a few members of the group might [...]
Madcoder rants about the untrusted SSL certificate handling in Firefox 3, and suggests this regarding his own preferred implementation: It’s enough for 99.9% of the users. Isn’t that exactly the kind of uninformed pronouncement that gets us a lot of bad user interface design in the first place?
Arstechnica has some commentary on why time-based releases aren’t the best way to get your quality on. Good, fast, cheap – pick two.
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According to the tubes, Dreamworks will be producing a live-action version of Ghost in the Shell. While there’s great fun to be had debating the pros and cons thereof, I’m going to stick to the usual casting speculation game. My first pick for Motoko Kusanagi is Jodie Foster. She has the acting chops to pull [...]
There’s a report that BD isn’t selling well, specifically the players required to view the discs. From my perspective, a BD player is still a ways off. There are too many obstacles to adoption at this point: 1. Price. Manufacturers, make your money on the movies as always (DVDs have a huge markup, BD even [...]
Kurt Denke of Blue Jeans Cable responds to claims of patent infringement. Well played.
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Two steps to ultimate failure: 1. Trust user input 2. Suffer http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/mets/2008/04/runoff-to-determine-mets-new-8.html
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Even if you’re one of those who disbelieve Santa, you’d better be good. There’s always Nackles.