It's all bullshit and it's bad for you

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 the code to check string lengths instead of looking checking for null. [...]

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§2075 · June 16, 2008 · (No comments) · Tags: , , ,


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.

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§2034 · April 6, 2008 · (No comments) · Tags: , , ,


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 all the hackers, testers, and volunteers who helped it happen.

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§2026 · March 29, 2008 · 2 comments · Tags: , , , ,


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 for Calc, and block selection for Writer.

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§2022 · March 25, 2008 · 4 comments · Tags: , , , ,


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 fire, if this would qualify as “executive experience.” Perhaps Sinbad should have run for [...]

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§2021 · March 25, 2008 · (No comments) · Tags: , ,


A recent Linux filesystem benchmark, using modern filesystems, takes a look at some hard numbers. Looks like JFS usually comes in on top.

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§2015 · March 21, 2008 · 2 comments · Tags: , , , ,