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Someone told me that the text on a page I made was coming out too light, which I hadn’t seen when testing that page in Mozilla, Safari, or Opera. Yet in IE some text on that page was very light gray. The page uses several style sheets, and it turned out there was a line [...]

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I’m having a very weird problem with an XCode project. It’s a converted PowerPlant project. I’m able to build it on both of my machines, both interactively from inside XCode and using the xcodebuild command line tool.
When one of the other programmers tries to build it on his machine, he can build it from inside [...]

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I suddenly started having trouble with Movable Type yesterday and I was no longer to post entries, so I’ve moved this weblog to WordPress. Importing entries from MT was fast & painless. I’m still tweaking the stylesheet a bit. The old weblog can still be seen here.

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From the Miami Herald: Within a few months, 4,500 Broward students — some as young as 9 — will be on the front lines of a technological revolution in the county’s classrooms. Each student in the pilot project will be issued an Apple iBook computer.
The School Board has spent $5 million from its capital budget [...]

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Barack Obama gave one of the greatest speeches of recent years at the Democratic National Convention.

There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America. The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for [...]

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Via Lockergnome Bytes:
Automated SQL injection: What your enterprise needs to know: “SQL injection exploits may soon be as common as those targeting Windows and Unix flaws, experts say. An estimated 60% of Web applications that use dynamic content are likely vulnerable, with devastating consequences for an enterprise. A presentation of an automated attack targeting SQL [...]

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I’ve posted some pictures from ADHOC here. UPDATE: I added a second album with pictures from the ADHOC Labs Showcase (formerly the Hack Show).

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I’m now at the ADHOC conference and David Pogue is giving the keynote. My first impression is that it’s a lot smaller than the usual MacHack and has a very low-budget feel. There are only about 100 people rather than the usual 200-300. A lot of people who were here previous years weren’t here. I [...]

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I leave tomorrow morning for ADHOC Conference (formerly MacHack). Posting will probably be light the next few days.

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The Right-Wing Squares: “Media Matters for America launches an Internet ad that lets some of the nutjobs hang themselves in their own words. Worth viewing and passing along, especially to people who think the ‘liberal’ media is full of hate.” (Via Life and Deatherage.)

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I’ve been concerned about MacMegasite’s bandwidth usage, so I’ve been looking into ways to reduce it. The first thing I did was re-compress the logo as an optimized gif, which reduced it from almost 12k to 4k, after trying several settings and comparing gif & png for size and quality.
Finally, I added gzip compression, which [...]

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Interesting article about rappers in Senegal (via metafilter):

We’re not like the Americans, whose texts are just insults and abuse,’ many rappers assure me. ‘It’s not a question of money, weapons, sports cars, or beautiful women either. Senegalese rap, it’s the street speaking. We are journalists, reporters of everyday life.’ Others consider themselves teachers or educators [...]

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Phpnuke.org is reporting a massive DoS attack to their server which damaged their forums. Maybe this will wake them up to the security issues which plague PHP-Nuke.

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I love DirecTV since I got it a few weeks ago. I get DVD-quality video and sound from it since I connected the settop box to my TV’s S-video input instead of using the antenna connection as it was originally installed.
One channel I like is Link TV (channel 375). They often show World Music videos [...]

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The senate voted 48-50 against proceeding with the Federal Marriage Amendment debate. 60 votes were needed to survive a procedural vote on cloture, which would prevent a filibuster. Bush is “deeply disappointed” with the vote, but considers it only a temporary setback.
Here is a complete rundown of the vote. As expected, the vote was divided [...]

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They Might Be Giants meets Homestarrunner: The Spine.

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This country was founded on the principles of acceptance, tolerance, and religious freedom by people who left their old countries to find the freedom to worship as they please and escape a state-imposed religion. Now we have a group that’s trying to turn this country into exactly what it was meant to escape from.
I don’t [...]

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Over the weekend I decided to do some speed comparisons on the various browsers I use (strictly by “feel”, not scientific) and I found that Firefox was by far the fastest, even faster than Camino. I’ve now been using Firefox as my default browser for a few days and I’m very happy with it.

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I’ve reached my target weight of 175! I no longer fret about the diet; I automatically avoid bad carbs and go for the healthiest choices when I eat out. I’ve discovered that I can live without bread or potatoes, although I do miss rice & pasta. Now that I’m on the maintenance phase, I can [...]

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Brown Equals Terroist - the story of a photography student who refuses to provide his ID to a security officer, and is swiftly confronted by Homeland Security.
(Via metafilter.com.)

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