del.icio.us facelift

The new del.icio.us website looks great:

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Posted at 03:16PM Jul 31, 2008 by tgardner in Internet  | 

Google Art: July 28, 2008

Why? Beatrix Potter was born on this day, July 28, 1866.

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Posted at 06:06AM Jul 28, 2008 by tgardner in Internet  | 

FF 3.1 A1 code freeze

Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 code freeze is now in effect. The repository will open when tagging is complete.

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Posted at 06:46AM Jul 22, 2008 by tgardner in Internet  | 

new last.fm look

Last.fm has made some changes:

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Posted at 01:59PM Jul 18, 2008 by tgardner in Internet  |  Comments[1]

"We have a light up here we don't like"

Twitter maintenance statements like this one remind me of a pilot announcement on a commercial flight I made a few years ago, short on detail, but an announcement none the less. Say as little as possible but say something.

At the end of the flight in question, on final approach with flaps out, gear down and in general configured and stabilized for landing, the L1011 (I told you it was a few years ago) retracted its gear and the flying pilot applied takeoff-go around power, in effect aborting the landing. After a few minutes, the pilot-in-command made the following announcement: "Folks, you may have noticed we are going back up. We have a light up here we don't like".

"A light ... we don't like"? Please. The problem was fairly obvious: there was an asymmetrical flap extension. I saw that at once, and I knew the landing would be aborted, but even folks without piloting experience could feel the weird seat-of-the-pants feeling from the asymmetrical lift/drag. Just explain what's going on, people aren't stupid, and the more information, the better. Twitter, same to you. What kind of database problem?

Oh, and they reset a circuit breaker and corrected the flap extension problem and landed safely.

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Posted at 01:50PM Jul 18, 2008 by tgardner in Internet  | 

Firefox 3.0.1

Click Help->Check for Updates to download the latest Firefox. Read the CERT article for one reason why.

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Posted at 09:23AM Jul 17, 2008 by tgardner in Internet  | 

update to developer OpenOffice

A new developer version of OpenOffice is available.

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Posted at 06:42AM Jul 17, 2008 by tgardner in Internet  | 

Google Art 07-JULY-2008

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Posted at 01:14PM Jul 07, 2008 by tgardner in Internet  | 

New version of StumbleUpon addon.

Posted at 08:28AM Jul 05, 2008 by tgardner in Internet  | 

recent vulnerabilities (ATOM)

Recent vulnerabilities feed: USCERT.

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Posted at 10:20AM Jun 27, 2008 by tgardner in Internet  |