Jun 16 2008
My little blockquote title|cite extractor for jQuery has been updated just slightly when it appeared to have funny results. It may have to do with the element.attr() changes introduced in jQuery 1.2.6.
It’s not a particularly disastrous bug or anything, but I’ve altered…
Apr 06 2008
Great. Now expect the U.S. to be five years behind Sweden and Japan and most of the the other established countries in the world.
Mar 31 2008
One of the coolest packet analyzers anywhere, Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) has reached version 1.0 after 10 years of work. It’s a cool program, really it is. Get it here.
Mar 29 2008
After 6+ months of steady development, Wordpress 2.5 has finally been released, with a number of new features, including a media library and the first administration panel redesign since 2.0.
In addition, the main Wordpress website has been redesigned to match.
Congratulations to…
Mar 27 2008
Songbird, a cross-platform music player/manager and music store frontend based on the Mozilla XUL runtime, has reached 0.5. Get the download here. The program is a bit of a bear, but a competent app in a lot of ways.
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Mar 25 2008
After a number of delays, OpenOffice 2.4.0 has been officially released. Get it here. Check the mirrors for your own OS and localization. OpenOffice 2.4.0 has not quite been released yet. Some major new features include OpenGL transitions for Impress, some major charting improvements…
Mar 25 2008
Re: the Bosnia trip. Ask yourself if the difference between landing in a hail of sniper fire and landing on a secure base, with children in a war-torn country is a “misstatement.” Also ask yourself, even if she had braved sniper…
Mar 21 2008
A recent Linux filesystem benchmark, using modern filesystems, takes a look at some hard numbers. Looks like JFS usually comes in on top.
Mar 12 2008