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I thought this was an interesting post, originally linked to on Slashdot. If you’re curious about the effects that the Anti-SPAM Act will have, check it out. Doesn’t look like it will help much at all. Gotta love the power of marketing companies as lobbyists. The only hope (as mentioned by [...]

Well, after a lot of hard work, XRG 0.4.0 was just released this morning. Check the web site or the Changelog for update details. The last release was very successful and got an incredible response from users. I’m hoping that this release will be the same. I want to thank [...]

Today there was an article in the Detroit Free Press about cyber bullying. Slashdot also had a story linking to the article. It’s amazing to me that these things happen, though I can’t say that I’m surprised. Kids have always done some pretty mean things, and technology now has armed them with [...]

I’m not one usually complains about MacOS X, but today I was thinking more critically about how the Dock works and what functions it provides.

The Dock, as many of you know, has two parts. The application part is where you can define a set of frequently used applications you would like to have easy [...]

For me, coding at work and coding at home have always been different. When I started my job at Ephibian, I learned a lot about web and database programming, but at home, my personal site never really improved, or changed much at all. My take on it is that when I get home [...]

As you have probably noticed, this page takes awhile to load. The server I’m running this on is an older Mac running Yellow Dog Linux, so CGI page generation takes awhile. For this reason, I set up some caching pages at http://www.starcoder.com/blog/. That page will update every 10 minutes. I also [...]

I’m trying to get XRG 0.4.0 ready for release next week. It looks like it’s going to be pretty good, so I’m pretty excited to get it out the door. The release will fix some bugs that XRG had with Panther, adds a battery graph and a few other new features.

Recently, I had [...]

Alright, let’s give this a go. I’m not much of a blogger, but occasionally I have some things to say. As you can see down in the corner, this is blog uses blosxom to generate the pages. Thanks to Rael Dornfest for putting together an excellent piece of software. Not only [...]