October 13, 2005
Andrew Sullivan is impressed by the latest intelligence release from the Director of National Intelligence. It purports to be a letter “between two senior al Qa’ida leaders, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, that was obtained during counterterrorism operations in Iraq, ” from July 9, 2005. The letter paints a picture of a Jihad aimed [...]
October 12, 2005
Justin at Right Side Redux ponders the similarities between the debate on Harriet Miers and the debate on Intelligent Design and asks his readers to draw parallels. I don’t really see the parallels. It seems like the country is more united against Miers than for or against evolution. The only similarity that I can see [...]
October 9, 2005
Robert Scoble wants search engines to pretend that the web is different than it is. I think this would be a bad idea. Scoble’s objection is that search results don’t reflect his notions of what is important in the world. “As long as I’m the #1 Robert and Robert Redford isn’t as high up as [...]
October 4, 2005
If you receive this error message, the answer to your question is here. Don’t go anywhere else. After wading through substantial non-sense, Pat Hayzlett points out the answer here. The problem in a nut shell is that mySQL 4.1 changed their password hashing and now store the passwords of database users in 40 chars instead [...]
October 3, 2005
Matthew Russell has some ideas for extending the battery life of your Apple Powerbook. Since I just switched back to Macs and I was having some problems with my previous laptop’s battery life, this was an issue of keen interest. I knew about all of Matthew’s common suggestions, turn off Bluetooth (actually I had completely [...]