Gnome and XGL: Break the interface when it’s cool to do so

(Deep geek talk ahead. Hold on!)
I’m liking the new XGL additions Novell has added to Gnome (eyecandy is good), but what pisses me off about it is the dragging over workspaces demonstrations. Metacity doesn’t ship with the ability to drag windows over workspaces because it’s not discoverable for users or some other user interface horse-shit [...]

0MG! V1Ru535!

Steve pointed me to McAfee’s site where he noticed a pretty misleading advertisment. This advertisment for the Secure IE service claims to do a security scan of your browser. According to this security scan, I’m pretty much a sitting duck for Active X attacks. That’s disturbing, because Firefox doesn’t have Active X and Linux doesn’t [...]

Spooky fish

The tank has been incredibly cloudy lately, so it’s pretty difficult to see in it. I’ve been doing pretty frequent water changes, but haven’t managed to control it as well as I would have liked. Also, spooky fish (the chinese algae eater) has been really busy in the gravel lately. I thought those events were [...]

Another podcast performance

Brain Food has played your song Going Back. Find out more about this PodShow here
I’m part of the segue music just after the hiccup story.

Upcoming changes

I’m planning on making some changes to the code on these pages to allow better access to the archives. Each article will be on it’s own page, instead of the current system which puts all of the articles on a page, where you might or might not get to the article you want.
And, of course [...]

Seen on a license plate

BTTLFED
I’ve heard about being proud of your childhood, but this is ridiculous.

Happy Birthday, Samuel!

Hope you have a great birthday, Samuel!

SCO needs developers

SCO wants developers back. As a developer, I feel uniquely qualified to give a response back to SCO:
Dear SCO: Blow me.

What is HSA?

What is HSA?

Paris Hilton v. UB40 (or why Paris Hilton is a no-talent, slutty thief)

Apparently Paris Hilton (is a slut) recorded a song that borrows… nay, rips off a UB40 song called Kingston Town. (Need proof?) So, rather than support a skank that doesn’t need your money, please pick up the best-of album from UB40 instead. You’ll not only get the same song, but you’ll also be supporting some [...]