The del.icio.us social bookmark system completely replaces my in-browser bookmarks with the addition of the following Keymarks (or Searchlets or Address-barlets or whatever you call them).

A simple UNIXish method of maintaining NFS automount points under Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther).

Will anti-circumvention apply to normal web content? Is it ethical to modify the style or functionality of a website with tools like browser extensions or user stylesheets? Does anyone care?

I'll let you punch me in the arm the next time I see you if you just go read this paper.

I, Robot got you down? Maybe ALICE can cheer you up—or not.

Notes on a bunch of different text based utilities.

Making User Stylesheets (CSS) a little more useful.

It's too good to be true. Avoid anything this simple and elegant.

Notes on a Redhat 9 to Fedora Core 2 upgrade using yum. Pretty painless really.

If you only have time to read one 521 page government report this year, make sure it is the Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq.

How not to name a software application.

A list of stuff I would like to do with this site.

Use <ForceType> to get fine grained control over content negotiation in Apache... Or don't..

A Moveable Type export file parser in Python.

A Fast User Switching (FUS) hack for systems running GDM. This includes a GDM SUP client module that can be used to talk to GDM from Python allowing such cool things as creating/switching virtual terminals and querying whose logged on.

Google doesn't forget.

What you can and cannot expect from the Notebook section of this site.

Dag runs an extensive repository of packages for RPM based GNU/Linux distributions. There is constantly strife between his self-run, low-process methods of maintaining a repository of packages and those of the Fedora.us people.

The mean opinion on the Atom/RSS situation.

Elliotte Rusty Harold pushes a an information model where XML data is very loosely defined—as in no schemas—between producers and consumers.

With the 100 GB mailbox size, filter support, and labels Gmail may make a really solid mailing list aggregator.

Learn CSS from the masters..

GNOME 2.6 w/ GTK+ 2.4 seems considerable more responsive than previous versions.

URLGrabber gets a home at Duke..

The benefits of protecting intellectual property should be weighed against the cost in information flow.

Play Enemy Territory? Try Covert Ops..

The two URLGrabber source trees have been sync'd up again.

Daily Show Feb 09, 2004.

Trying to get some time allocated for URLGrabber in the coming weeks.

A Syndicate Feed Normalizer / Aggregator

A simple method of ensuring True/False works in all versions of python.

Can rdiff-backup and yum be used to provide an intelligent system for backing up only what cannot be retrieved from package repositories?

So I was able to package up some simple Firebird extensions into RPMs. Here are my initial findings and some thoughts on moving forward.