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This snippet from Le Sabot Post-Moderne explained for me why many people in Russia, Ukraine, and other post-soviet states continue to support, even elect, strongman (read near-dictatorial) leaders like Putin and Yanukovych:

A random idea I had the other day: create a distributed client system like SETI, where the processing time is being donated to third world or developing countries where processing power is hard to get. I don't know what the data sets would be, nor how it would all be setup, but it's an idea.

Hello out there! Sorry for the lack of updates lately - a deadline at work is fast approaching, and I've been putting me energies there, as well as our adoption. But, so as to not leave all you folks in interweb-land in the dark, some highlights:

Le Sabot Post-Moderne - Yanukovych -- Left, Right or Nowhere?:

As |Jodi| says in her own wonderful way:

You can't use DHTML to change the contents of <table> or <tr> elements in IE6.

Hm. Dave is re-inventing RSS's <enclosure> element, this time as the technology-specific <torrent> element. We already have Bittorrent-as-enclosure working just fine, thank you.

how-to-dismantle-an-atomic-bomb-streams

Hear the new album via streaming QT/WMP/REAL:

U2 -How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

Hear the new album via streaming QT/WMP/REAL:

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Hear the new album via streaming QT/WMP/REAL:

U2 -How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

I got a bit of help from the denizens of IRC (crschmidt, kpried) in creating a little bit of shell code that, when run, will get the current IP address of en0 (on my Powerbook that's the Airport) and 1) put it on the clipboard, and 2) print it out. This should go on one line in your .bash_profile.

Hey, cool. I had the opportunity today to call in and chat with Jerry Schuman on his Techaura podcast. Jerry's a cool guy, and we talked about TiVo, podcasting, TiVo, The Man, and well, TiVo. Mike Ramsay, listen up! You can subscribe to Jerry's Techaura podcast with any of the ipodders listed here.

Doing some work this evening... I lost my NetNewsWire subscriptions and managed to rebuild most of them from the cache folder, so I spent the time cleaning out the list, unsubscribing from many feeds that I just did not care about anymore. In the same spirit, I've been unsubscribing from a ton of mailing lists, and re-subscribing to them from my Gmail account. Let Google store my list archives, with all its searchable gigabyteness.

accessible-forms

To read again and process -- Web Usability - Accessible Forms: >"This document is concerned with what the user of a Website form "sees" and interacts with. It outlines how you can create forms for the Web that are more accessible..."

To read again and process -- Web Usability - Accessible Forms: >"This document is concerned with what the user of a Website form "sees" and interacts with. It outlines how you can create forms for the Web that are more accessible..."

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To read again and process -- Web Usability - Accessible Forms: >"This document is concerned with what the user of a Website form "sees" and interacts with. It outlines how you can create forms for the Web that are more accessible..."

Well, it looks like my TiVo is going to get a lot less useful. Dammit.

PVRBlog, a new site I'm subscribed to, may have some interesting things to say about the intersection of podcasting and PVRs...

Doug Kaye (producer of IT Conversations & purveyor of fine podcasts) linked to my TiVo-casting post. Thinking on it again, I saw a couple aspects to it that I had not thought through before:

This is the coffee shop where I often come to work when I'm not going into the office. Free WiFi, great coffee and muffins. It's right around the corner from my house, I could walk if I weren't so lazy. ;)