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Change of e-mail address
Effective immediately, if you want to send me e-mail, please use this address: rnewman at alum.mit.edu
My old address rnewman@theCIA.net, which I've had since 1997, will stop working on or about June 30, 2013. The local Internet service provider Galaxy Internet Services, which owns Complete Internet Access, is just plain shutting down at the end ( Read more... ) -
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Polls are open 7 am to 8 pm, statewide ( Read more... ) -
Do you maintain an LJ community? If so, please read this
If you are a maintainer of a LiveJournal community, LJ has just saddled you with an unwanted "spam protection" misfeature that is probably doing great harm to your community by silently hiding comments with links ( Read more... ) -
Do you run Internet Explorer 9? If so, please do me a quick favor
If you are running Internet Explorer version 9, can you go to this page, click on each of the four links, and tell me what you see on each resulting page? Thanks.
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Does anyone here have write access to a PHP web server?
I am investigating an unfortunate interaction between a Facebook feature (the "always use https" preference) and the behavior of certain browsers (definitely Mac Safari, perhaps others) when they receive an HTTP "302" redirect ( Read more... ) -
Goodbye, Dad
I miss my Dad, who died of cancer, unexpectedly quickly, in Columbus, Ohio on Wednesday night, August 11. He was 81 ( Read more... ) -
An 'A' student at 52
Harvard Summer School officially released its grades today, and I'm happy to report that I got an 'A' in David Malan's CSCI S-75: Building Dynamic, Scalable Websites. That makes three straight 'A's from the Harvard Division of Continuing Education ( Read more... ) -
Back to school for the summer?
Tonight, I'll be attending the first session of Harvard Summer School's CSCI S-75 Building Dynamic, Scalable Websites class. The official course website, http://cs75.net , today still seems to be in transition from the Extension School version (a full 4 month academic term) to the Summer School ( Read more... ) -
Laid off
This afternoon around 4 pm, I was laid off after 5 1/4 years of faithful service as a Ruby, Perl, and MySQL programmer at Merrill Lextranet (formerly Legal Computer Solutions, Inc ( Read more... ) -
Someone trying to re-enact Watchmen in real life?
Is this for real, or an elaborate hoax on a credulous TV reporter?
Cincinnati Superhero Patrols Streets Fighting Crime: 'Shadowhare' Among Nationwide Group Of Superheroes