Archive for August, 2005

Pirates of Silicon Valley DVD

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

MacMinute clued me in to the fact that Pirates of Silicon Valley is coming out on DVD. I recorded this movie when I last had cable (back in 1999) because I was out the days it aired. I enjoyed this movie, and because of it’s high geekfest quotient, right up there with Real Genius.
I think [...]

More libertarian hypocracy. Why big business rules…

Sunday, August 14th, 2005

From a comment on Mark’s blog:
I don’t remember who said this, but recently I read something interesting about business
mom and pop kind of business, do what they want and offer it to you. (meaning if you like it, they will have your business, if you don’t like it, they won’t. but they do what they [...]

PHP Security, the oxymoron

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

Well now that some of you have met me from OSCON, you are probably thinking to yourself, “What’s the deal with your blog? There is no PHP in there, you poser.”
How true.
I better start writing some stuff, before they kick me out of the “all-star PHP line up”.1
I think that when most people hear “PHP” [...]

FYIFV?

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

I was catching up on Mark’s blog when I read a reference to FUIFV.
Dave Coursey’s memory is a bit off.

Switched back to DSL

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

I’m back up.
Comcast was very funny.
For the last half-year, if the cable modem goes down, by the time they address the problem, it is gone. Since addressing the problem means sending an engineer which costs me and Comcast a lot of time and money, I resolved to wait until it was down for a [...]