http://geekpractitioners.net Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:12:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yet I can totally see it happening, based on my experiences with people and buildings and companies. Server room is a unique location. http://geekpractitioners.net/index.php/2008/06/30/this-is-funny/ I have run into the scenario of checking an end user's computer for signs of porn, or surfing porn sites, and seen ambiguity introduced by popups from sites that are not porn per se, or clicks that were unintended and aborted. Obviously, malware can not only cause popups, but ... http://geekpractitioners.net/index.php/2008/06/19/intentional-or-malware/ What could be geekier than cosmology? It's amazingly cool that we seem able to detect Hints of 'time before Big Bang', which explains entropy and the apparent one-way orientation of time. It's as if the Big Bang were the zero on a numberline, in which we are on the positive ... http://geekpractitioners.net/index.php/2008/06/06/big-bang-as-zero/ Ever think about switching to a Mac, or adding one to your stable of computers? Phillip Zannini has written a cleverly named book and transition guide: A Mac Eye for the Windows Guy - The Complete Guide to Software for Your Mac! It's worth a look, if you're thinking about expanding your ... http://geekpractitioners.net/index.php/2008/04/05/mac-eye-for-the-windows-guy/ If I had more money and less else to occupy me, I would consider going to the Providence Geek Dinner tonight. Oh well. That and I don't always do well jumping into a crowd of people I don't know and socializing. http://geekpractitioners.net/index.php/2008/02/20/geek-dinner/ Desktopple sounds like the thing for me. I work centered mainly around the desktop, but that leaves me having to clean it up periodically. Usually that's a dramatic sweep every couple months, with "running out of space" sweeps of the easy to move stuff in between. http://geekpractitioners.net/index.php/2008/01/24/desktopple/ Talk about feeling watched. No sooner did I remove the rogue links than they were replaced with similar ones off a different college URL. I dropped everything to upgrade WordPress. Seems to be working so far. http://geekpractitioners.net/index.php/2008/01/12/upgraded/ I came over here to update the blogroll and noticed a funny thing: Someone was able to hack WordPress in a way that gave them access to the blogroll. No idea when it happened, but the links all redirected through this WordPress blog using a trailing structure in the form ... http://geekpractitioners.net/index.php/2008/01/12/time-to-update-wordpress/ I have updated my resume page. Eliminated beta and scratch stuff and added a link to the current blogging resume in Word format. Perhaps I'll get around to posting other stuff here one of these days... http://geekpractitioners.net/index.php/2008/01/10/resume-posted/ Web Worker Daily remains a source of great content, but I hate their new design enough that I'm not sure I can call it my favorite anymore. Not only does it not fit the name neatly as the old design did, but as is so common, the featured content ... http://geekpractitioners.net/index.php/2007/12/08/web-worker-daily-et-al/