One big question that seems to be floating around academic circles these days is whether tis’ nobler to teach students to understand foundations or to steep them in the latest research. My girlfriend has seen this debate in Biology circles, and I’ve seen it in Computer Science circles. I won’t pretend to answer […]
I recently added a page to my site where I can keep a list of interesting articles and posts that I want to read. Mostly these come from weblogs and news sites, many of which are hopping on the RSS/RDF/XML/FOAF/etc. bandwagon. The script I wrote to track this bookmarks requires me to input […]
Slashdot has another winner. Now we’re talking open CMS interoperability. The question put forth in the Advogato article is whether or not interoperability and the standards required for it is really neccesary in the CMS world.
The answer is (in my mind) a qualified yes. I like to mess around with different CMS […]
Slashdot has a story up about an article at LinuxWorld about single sign-on services. The author contends (I think) that neither Microsoft’s passport (which he contends is to insecure) and the Liberty Alliance will succeed, but will rather be beaten to the punch by a technology taken from Plan 9. It seems the newest version […]
The most annoying thing about alternating between two operating systems is maintaining two identities. Settings, bookmarks, files, email, etc. must all be kept in duplicate, triplicate, or worse. The ideal solution to this information multiplication would be sharing this information (call it your profile) across all operating systems and devices. As mentioned […]
Still can’t come up with a new page design that I like. I’ve been browsing around, looking for inspiration. I made up a page inspired by Francois Jordaan’s page and I like the logo I made, but I’m not overly pleased with the rest. Back to the drawing board.
I must admit that Movable Type is considerably more polished than Blogger or Blosxom. It doesn’t have the simplicity of Blosxom, nor the egalitarian feel, but it isn’t difficult to install nor to use and has a far more powerful tagset. It remains to be seen if I will continue to use it […]
Ok, pictures are finally up. I’ve uploaded images from North Carolina, Calirfornia, Steamboat, and Europe. Go here if you’re interested. One thing, I’m going to start uploading pictures scaled to 800×600 since the original 1600×1200 images are a might bit difficult to upload on my connection (stupid 128k upload). Next though: […]