When I read that the owner of My Money Blog keeps his passwords aggregated on one website, I was shocked. That’s putting all your eggs in one basket, I thought. If a hacker breaks into Yodlee, the service he uses to keep all his financial passwords, he’s toast!
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I was reading the comments on the Slashdot article about the guy who traded an unlocked iPhone for a car, and I followed a link to this Wikipedia article about one red paperclip. Kyle MacDonald, a Canadian blogger, traded his way from a single red paperclip to a house in a series of trades spanning almost a year. You can read more at the Wikipedia article– it’s really fascinating 
I searched for a solution to this for hours, and ended up adapting some older code I’ve been using on my own website for years. Sometimes the best solution is the simplest one.
Laura Reeve, Daily Trojan: CNN, please don’t turn into my mother
Someone needs to write this guide. Might as well be me, with the help of you, my blog reader. Yes, I want you to help. You’ll be credited as one of the contributors to the guide, of course. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Podcasting is hard. And it still is. I can do it, sure. But it needs to be easy. My definition of easy is that my mom should be able to do it on her own.
Is this a bug?
I was working on the TCF website, happily coding along, until I hit a snag: whenever I’d click on a link, it seems to be redirecting me back to the page I was on.
Okay, I shortly realized I was mistaken: I was actually not moving at all, and just staying where I was. What’s going on?, I thought. I clicked again. I realized the link was opening in a new tab… unless that page was already open in a tab. In that case, it wasn’t a new tab at all– it was the same tab, but not the one I was looking at. So when I clicked the link, if my Internet connection was fast enough, it looked like nothing happened!
I had a domain that expired, and I was afraid it was a goner. But I sent an email to my registrar, DomainSite, and they replied the next business day saying the domain had been re-added to my account. I was able to renew it for another year with no problems. Plus, they support not only credit cards, but PayPal as well. Awesome!
I recently installed Windows Vista, and guess what was one of the first things to happen? I was typing along merrily, when suddenly a heart-wrenching beep! sounded in my ears.
Yes, it was the infamous ThinkPad beep. How anyone ever thought this was a good idea is beyond me. Now that I finally have Vista, I can show you what the process looks like in this OS. Thankfully, it’s very similar to how it works in XP.
I just installed Windows Vista Home Premium on my Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad Z61t. Yes, after many months, I finally got fed up with XP and decided to dive into Vista with a fresh install, deleting my previous partition and starting off new. It was a fairly smooth experience, and I definitely like what Microsoft has done with Vista over XP.
Two gripes:
- Internet Explorer 7Â is automatically installed, no questions asked.
- Homepage is set to MSN.com by default. Thus, virtually every single person in the world will see MSN.com, no matter what. Read the rest of this entry »
As a Firefox Campus Rep, I get a box of Firefox goodies to use while promoting Firefox on the USC campus. A few days ago, I received a box for this year. It contains a book called Firefox for Dummies, by Blake Ross.
I have to be honest. I’ve always been a little hesitant to pick up “for Dummies” books because they’re a huge series, which reeks of mass media and brainless fluff. With a title including the word “Dummies”, who can take it seriously? As usual, I was wrong. These books are often full of good stuff.
Firefox for Dummies is no exception. It’s written by the main man himself, Blake Ross, co-creator of Firefox. There’s no better person to write a book on this topic, and he’s fully equipped and a heck of a lot more knowledgeable than me.
Despite his stunning credentials, he comes across as humble and down-to-earth, at least in my opinion. Here’s an excerpt from the introduction: Read the rest of this entry »
