Blogging is changing the face of news broadcasting by connecting eyewiness reporters with a much wider audience. Blogging lowers the bar and allows small voices to be heard as loudly as big ones. A prime example of this is a weblog written by a woman camping out in an old-growth redwood tree, hoping to keep it from being cut, and raising awareness of forest ecology issues. Her support crew set up a Debian Linux laptop and a 5-mile Wireless link to make it happen.
I am not quite sure how to describe these weird dioramas of posed dead animals....
The Church of Scientology, and bunch of creepy folks, don't want you to know about them. They are using porn-industry tactics to poison Google's cache about them. Google seems to spider this site, so here's my two bits to help out. Xenu.net tells all. (via CubicMeterCrystal)
I love cover versions and remixes of songs. Quite often they are better than the official album release or original artist. At very least its fun to hear the same song done another way. Here are a few I found on Kazaa, a new (to me) peer-to-peer system that has proven quite fruitful. This tool is a very cool covers database.
All is Full of Love (Bjork) done by Death Cab for Cutie
Army of Me (Bjork) done by Helmet
On Top of the World (Carpenters) done by Bjork
Rhinestone Cowboy (Glen Campbell) done by Radiohead
I've removed these mp3s because my disk quota here is pretty low. If you want me to put them back up, just leave a comment below and I will.
I am working on a project that wants to authenticate users. We could use .htaccess, but that is too hard to administrate. We are already using a database, so we'll just make a table for the users and authenticate from there. All of this stuff is new to me, and while I am excited to learn about it, I need to keep some notes. Maybe some other web developer from five years ago will be excited to learn about these high-tech ramblings. This stuff is hardly news anymore. I'll be maintaining this section over the next few weeks as I learn more. If you know about this kind of stuff, please leave me some feedback.
http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/05/perl/
http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/
http://www.torrez.net (nice MD5 notes)
I am working on a project that wants to authenticate users. We could use .htaccess, but that is too hard to administrate. We are already using a database, so we'll just make a table for the users and authenticate from there. All of this stuff is new to me, and while I am excited to learn about it, I need to keep some notes. Maybe some other web developer from five years ago will be excited to learn about these high-tech ramblings. This stuff is hardly news anymore. I'll be maintaining this section over the next few weeks as I learn more. If you know about this kind of stuff, please leave me some feedback.
http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/05/perl/
http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/
http://www.torrez.net (nice MD5 notes)
I am pleased to announce that, according to google, I am among the top 25 results when you key "freak bug". I would never have known this unless someone else had tried it and clicked through. To you, anonymous reader, I raise my glass in praise.