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Backups are Useless

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

At the very bottom of a long list of sobering lessons to be learned in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, is one having to do with the security of digital data. Katrina Lesson #1432: Backups are Useless I don’t have precise statistics, but I’d venture to say that most people don’t make regular backups. Between […]

Stupid Style Tricks

Friday, November 11th, 2005

Something that has been for months on my list of things to “check out” are Cascading Style Sheets. Ever since I woke up one day and noticed that they were no longer that funky innovative technology that no browsers supported, I realized maybe I better get a better grasp of what-all they entailed. When one […]

A Tale of Two Blogs

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

I was a little slow to pick up on the blogging thing. I have been writing in this particular forum for less than six months. Prior to that, I had a taste of blogging, through my connections with various friends on the LiveJournal site. Creating an ID at first just to post non-anonymous comments to […]

Xcode 2.2 Quickies

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

I’m excited to see Xcode 2.2 unleashed for the world to enjoy. I’ve been using a pre-release of it for a week or two, and have been itching to share some of the less obvious improvements I’ve noticed in this release. GDB’s Info Shared Command Yee haw! How cool is this? The bug I described […]