Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
04jan2007
New Nginx.conf with optimizations, by Ezra Zygmuntowicz. Sounds like a reasonable alternative to Lighttpd.
The stuff of dreams, “we’ve compiled a short list of fun materials – stuff that behaves a little bit outside the norm.”
“Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring” is a mnemonic device for remembering a particularly important keystroke sequence in Linux. In the event of a total system freeze up, this is the failsafe way to safely reboot a near-frozen computer.
Dreams where the umbrella is folded
Into the path you are hurled
And the cards are no good that you’re holding
Unless they’re from another world.
— Bob Dylan, Series Of Broken Dreams
Adobe Acrobat JavaScript Execution Bug is a Huge Security Issue , by Nitesh Dhanjani. Easily solved: don’t use Adobe Acrobat.
The XQuery Chimera Takes Center Stage, by Simon St. Laurent. “For the first time in many years, I left an XML conference thinking that XML might actually finally change the Web significantly – and soon.” I don’t buy it yet, even though XQuery is nice.
Drop That Design! 6 Things You Need to Know About Color, at Slash7.
Enough already with freaking out over people’s sex, David A. Black says. In German, the sex is mostly expressed implicitly as a suffix anyway.
You are one of God’s mistakes.
You crying, tragic waste of skin.
I’m well aware of how it aches.
— Placebo, Song To Say Goodbye
OpenID for non-SuperUsers, good things to know.
A dialogue with Sarah, aged 3: In which it is shown that if your Dad is a Chemistry professor, asking “why” can be dangerous, by Stephen McNeil. Awesome.
Citadel is a complete and feature-rich open source groupware platform. With telnet access(!).