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Cryptography, Technology, Privacy: Philip Zimmermann, Inventor of PGP
Liveblogging Philip Zimmermann's talk on Cryptography, Technology and Privacy at SxSW Interactive. Philip Zimmermann is the author of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), widely recognized as the best mainstream tool for keeping communications private on the Internet, particularly email [https plays…
del.icio.us is going away. Okay. *Why* is it going away?
Update: apparently del.icio.us is not going away, at least not yet. Yahoo apparently feels it is probably viable for some company, somewhere (although they don't feel strongly enough to keep the team that built it). I agree that it is…
Happy Birthday to Us!
P'unk Avenue is five years old today! In honor of this momentous occasion, we've reshuffled our roles. Effective immediately, I (Tom Boutell) am the lead designer. As my first official act, I've changed our default font here on the…
Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts
@odysseus is now mayor of Shiny Wooden Horse Disco Everybody Come Check It Out! on #foursquare! @agamemnon just checked in from Shiny Wooden Horse Disco Everybody Come Check It Out! via gowalla @cassandra IT'S A TRAP! @priam @cassandra SHUT UP…
Tonight: toast the Spirit Mars rover!
After exceeding its 90-day mission by SEVEN. FREAKING. YEARS, the Spirit Mars rover is permanently stuck. So sad! Yes, they plan to do some stationary science work with it when the winter is over, but let's face it... this…
svncampfire: svn commit notices in campfire, take 2
Using svn for version control? Have lots of repositories you're interested in? Maybe some of them aren't under your control, so you can't set up postcommit hooks? Check out svncampfire (literally... haha, see what I did there). svncampfire pastes…
Dear Gmail: let us map filters to "From" addresses
Dear Gmail, labels. multiple "From:" addresses. Now, please let me select a default "From:" address when replying to messages with a particular label. Then I can manage my various secret identities business roles with a much lower rate of accidental…
How to add ON DELETE CASCADE to an existing MySQL table without dropping any existing data
You created a MySQL table with a foreign key reference... for instance, a user_id field that refers to a separate table of users. Then you realized you should have specified "ON DELETE CASCADE" when creating the table. Now, when you…
Internet Explorer 6 to be ghetto-virtualized into oblivion
Microsoft will allow bass-ackwards XP-only applications, such as IE 6-only web apps, to run in emulation via Virtual PC as part of the regular Windows 7 desktop. That feature will apparently be standard in enterprise-class versions of Windows. I appreciate…
Criticism, journalism: things are tough/awesome all over
I enjoyed last night's Junto discussion on art criticism in Philadelphia but I'm puzzling over some fundamentals. The larger context went mostly unspoken. All journalism everywhere is in deep sheep dip right now because print newspapers are dying. At the…
Sometimes, blogging is timeless
Sometimes Google doesn't exactly rush pell-mell to index your blog. And when Google does index your blog, sometimes they don't do it in a way that really helps your readers. To my mind, blogs have two kinds of readers: 1.…
Ultimate Showdown of CMS Destiny
These are my notes from the Ultimate Showdown of CMS Destiny panel at #sxswi. * Colleen Carroll - Palantir.net * George DeMet - Palantir.net * Matt Mullenweg - Automattic/WordPress * Steve Fisher - Idea Market DESCRIPTION This panel will feature…
The Past Didn't Go Anywhere
Why back in my day we walked uphill both ways through slushing sleeting flaming hydrogenated bat oil without iPhones and we liked it. Youngsters today have no [INSERT NOUN HERE]. Okay, so sometimes the old ways are retarded. Entertaining to…