gourmet.com: Betting the Farm. Great article on agriculture policy and how one family farm in South Dakota is bucking the trend of cashing in on ethanol money and government subsidies. Rogers Cadenhead: Washington Post Wins Another Phony Pulitzer. I loved the Washington Post article about the violinist planted in the DC subway, but Rogers argues that [...]
Links for April 8
April 8th, 2008 · No Comments
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Links for March 12th
March 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Jon Udell interviews Ward Cunningham about how the Eclipse portal exposes its innter workings by way of reports on test results, and the advantages the resulting transparency provides. Really, really interesting stuff. Bruce Schneier discusses a report on the lack of security in implantable medical devices that provide [...]
Tags: · browsers, music, security, software development, testing, WordPress
WordPress, for now
January 19th, 2008 · 10 Comments
Today I reluctantly migrated the blog from Movable Type to WordPress. There are many things I like about Movable Type, especially in version 4.0, but for whatever reason it was very slow and seemed to keep getting slower. I installed FastCGI but wasn’t sure if it ever worked, made sure the database was properly indexed [...]
Tags: · meta, Movable Type, WordPress