Stan Taylor has started the Personal Credit Blog. Here’s how he describes it:
I recently had an experience that prompted me to learn about how personal credit works: credit history, credit reports, credit scores (FICO scores), etc. I also learned how your credit scores affect almost every aspect of your life. I found lots of commercial [...]
Rogers Cadenhead wonders what happens if FeedBurner goes belly up.
Endlessly reporting the horrifying facts of the day can get tiresome, and I have found that many of us liberal or progressive types have burned out on it to a certain extent since last year’s election. I post about political matters when I literally cannot stop myself, but I never intended for this to be [...]
Amanda Marcotte argues that for conservatives, freedom and life are opposing values (via Respectful of Otters). Here’s the crux of it:
I have also noticed that two values that BushCo likes to fling around are “life” and “freedom”, but I have also noticed that the two are opposite values in their rhetoric. You can have freedom [...]
I’ve set up an installation of Mediawiki to play with. Here’s a link. Mediawiki 1.4.0 was just released earlier this week and there appears to be a problem with the install file. I had to copy a file out of the 1.4rc1 archive to get the installer to work, and now the default skin looks somewhat [...]
I just noticed that the MySQL database that contains all of the entries posted here (and not much else) is over 24 megs. That’s a lot bigger than I would have thought.
I have a feeling that once I understand this, I’ll have achieved a higher state of consciousness. (Via Tim Bray.)
Jeremy Zowodny rightly points out today that Web development is hard. Back in the good old days, I used to do mostly HTML and JavaScript stuff, writing very little code that ran on the server. After assessing my own design skills and my loathing for JavaScript and browser incompatabilities, I ran toward server-side development as [...]
The New England Journal of Medicine has published an editorial on the Terry Schiavo case. (Via Eric Muller.)
I’m still in the design phase for my all new weblog software with comments and all that other good stuff. I’m planning on building it using Ruby on Rails (a nifty new version was just released). Currently I’m working on setting up a development environment. I just installed Ubuntu Linux on my [...]