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If you're looking for the page on how you can donate to our adoption fund, it's been moved to adoption/how-to-help/.

I'm trying to get the php accelerator MMCache running on a Mac running Mac OS X 10.3.7, and it's failing. I've followed the install instructions on Jacken's weblog, and tried the install process described in this Appletalk Australia article.

Via Journal of Election Madness: Yushchenko's Inauguration

>Discover what's important, make it happen, share your progress. Find your 43 things.

I'm on the horn on Skype (a voice-over-ip softphone) with Robert Kloosterhuis from the Netherlands. Robert is one of the participants in Kevin Devin's Tech Chat podcast, which I listen to religiously, so it's cool to get to know him a bit better.

I have 40 Gmail invites to give out. Send me an email at steveivy@gmail.com with a couple of lines saying why you want a Gmail account. Now with POP tastiness!

A couple of us are going to Edward Tufte's one-day course at the end of this month - I am seriously excited about this. Part of the swag is three of Tufte's books. W00t! :-D

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.

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

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:

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.

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

U2 -How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

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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:

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.

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