Nerd upgrades laptop to 1Gb, freaks.
Excerpt: When I first joined IBM in 1990 the company was still in the thrall of PROFS and VM/CMS and mainframes in general.... It had 512Mb of main memory and (hey, I'm forgetting the terminology finally) another 512Mb of "secondary" memory (which was slower and used for hiperspace, paging, swapping ,etc.... I still need to sift through the great suggestions I got, but I think that that request originated with this sense I have of: I have all of these great tools, but none of them really help me do anything new.
Posted: September 10, 2004
Things don't always go as planned
Excerpt: I've been watching The History Channel's Modern Marvels Engineering Disasters marathon today and have picked up a few ideas to keep in mind: Cost Savings Measures need to be scrutinized left, right, up, down, and then put on the shelf for further thinking before implementing or putting into production. With a number of these disasters, someone somewhere decides to change or tweak a design to use...
Posted: September 06, 2004
Index Template to Create Redirect list for .htaccess
Excerpt: I decided to change the structure of the /articles/ site slightly, to remove the /archives/ path from the URL and to change the filename from the article number to a munged form of the title. As there weren't many articles, I could easily manually create a redirect list for my .htaccess file, but I wanted to see if I could use a MovableType Index Template to...
Posted: June 13, 2004
Notes on a new Thinkpad x31
Excerpt: I bought a new IBM Thinkpad x31 earlier this month and am really enjoying it. It replaces an IBM Thinkpad x21 from 2001 so I picked up two+ years of updates with the new system. Oddly, it has a slightly smaller footprint than the x21. For the most part this isn't noticeable, except that it means the x31 is not compatible with the ultrabase I bought...
Posted: May 31, 2004
ibm.com history on the web
Excerpt: ibm.com has been online for ten years now. This is a collection of sites which discuss ibm.com over the years (note that some links may decay over time or require registration).
Posted: May 24, 2004
May 1994: www.ibm.com is launched
Excerpt: Wherein the young technical writer blossoms into a Corporate Webmaster.
Posted: May 17, 2004
How to get the last day's content or last post
Excerpt: How to use MTIfEmpty with MTSetVar to customize an MTEnries list
Posted: April 25, 2004
Content-encoding: gzip
Excerpt: This is a posting-in-progress on my experiences with compression in PHP.
Posted: April 20, 2004
Another Phishy Note
Excerpt: My Yahoo! email address, which I use primarily for registering at sites but never for anything of value or importance, gets mostly spam. One of the most consistent, and insistent notes I receive is to veerify _your_ _E-MAIL_ addres. Now, one would think that one would run your fraudulent email through an English language spell checker before sending it out. Now, I don't know what the...
Posted: April 09, 2004
More phish for thought
Excerpt: Back in September I wrote about a phish note I received on my Yahoo! account. Basically, it's an email puporting to be from some financial institution asking you to verify sensitive personal information by pointing you to what appears to be a webpage from that institution. Today I received another phish note which I just have to share: From: "_CITICARDS_" To: my-yahoo-address@yahoo.com Subject: CITI E-mail Veerification...
Posted: February 04, 2004
Flailing at xhtml
Excerpt: After reading this: Thought experiment [dive into mark] and playing around a bit with the W3C's Amaya, I attempted to make the blog bits of this site (the journal, comment blog, and this section) more XHTML compliant. All of the markup I control is XHTML. The problem is (not was) with the markup generated by Movable Type. I thought that I could craft clean code using...
Posted: January 22, 2004
Yahoo! Wallet Scam
Excerpt: In my Yahoo! email account this morning I received this message: Dear Yahoo! User, We encountered a billing error when attempting to renew your Yahoo! service. This type of error usually indicates that either the credit card you have on file has expired or that the billing address we have is not current. This is your final notice. Please take a moment to update your credit...
Posted: September 30, 2003
Ideology and Technology: Mode of Information as Critical Theory
Excerpt: Note: This is an essay I wrote in 1991 when I thought I could walk and talk with the best of the Literary Theoricists. I couldn't of course, but much of what I researched for this paper ended up informing and biasing my later work as IBM's Corporate Webmaster. I'd like to claim that in 1991 I thought the Internet would become a massive, worldchanging technology,...
Posted: May 16, 1991