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Microsoft’s adCenter broken for non-IE browsers

I just read about a firefox user’s experience with MS’s new adCenter advertising service. Unfortunately, this is what one expects from MS. It’s natural for MS to have IE as the preferred browser....

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Setting Up Django on Dreamhost

Jeff Croft has a nice tutorial on how to set up Django, a python web framework, on Dreamhost. If you want to use the sweetness that is Python to do web development, are a Dreamhost customer and would...

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Blog Grammar

I just read an article about common grammar mistakes that occur in blogs. I hope a lot of bloggers read it and it has a positive affect on blog grammar. Its always been one of my pet peaves. If your...

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God Save Net Neutrality

Slashdot has and interesting post about Net Neutrality. It deals with one pro and one con article published by NPR. The con article is written by Scott Cleland of NETCompetition.org, a telecom-funded...

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Keyboard shortcut for changing search engine in Firefox

If you want to change the Firefox search engine from the keyboard here is what you do. Ctrl + k --gets you to the search box Ctrl + Up or Down --switches the search engine. Now my life is complete.

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Father of the WWW on Net Neutrality

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has a short journal entry and also a video of his take on Net Neutrality. He is just one of many people who support Net Neutrality. In my last entry...

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Expat tips: Tunneling Traffic with ‘ssh -D’

I’ve been living outside the US for over a quarter of my life now. With this comes some minor annoyances. One annoyance is that certain Internet sites work ‘better’ when connecting from the US. Luckily...

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