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Network Solutions is no more! The end of a decade of frustration!
My sorry tail began in 2000 when I registered my domain, ImmortalSoFar.com on the new-fangled internet thingy. Back then, Network Solutions was the only registrar available so I went through them and got my instantly forgettable 8 digit account/user id numbers. It seemed a good idea to give my ISP email address (remember when we had those?) for the ( Read more... ) -
K.I.S.S.
aka Keep it simple, stupid. When does a labor saving feature become one more thing to go wrong? Apparently in the RV designs of the '80s ( Read more... ) -
IE9 bugs
Congratulations, Microsoft, on attempting to bring IE9 into W3C compliance. I really wish you hadn't bothered. Once again, they have attempted to fix the paintwork while ignoring the foundations resulting in broken code for little or no return ( Read more... ) -
Low-power hardware.
For those interested in the hardware I demonstrated at Rustycon:
The Intel options.
Intel desktop CPUs are the 1970s muscle cars of the computer hardware world. Under-engineered, inefficient but make them big enough and stick enough juice in them and they go fast. Unfortunately, on top of the consumption, they burn out themselves and their ( Read more... ) -
Apropos nothing...
Finding how to do things for myself has sent me to some very, shall we say, interesting sites across the internet. Often, the consensus is to have a stash of preserved goods and weapons with a few blowhards claiming that with a gun and ammunition they can get whatever they want ( Read more... ) -
If your xsl:param arrives empty in Firefox...
(This is an xml/xsl geek post for any lost souls who, like me, spent days trying to figure out the problem. If that's not you then move along.)
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Exactly what I was hoping to hear
"One: we will repeal all of the intrusive and unnecessary laws that inhibit your freedom ( Read more... )