I’ve recently seen two bug reports about the behavior of the MarsEdit “Bookmarklet,” the little link that you can stick in your browser’s toolbar to easily “reblog” stuff that you find on the web. The gist of the problem is that special characters end up getting junked in transition so that they show up as […]

Anybody running WordPress should be aware of the recent security breach at WordPress HQ, that caused a pretty troubling “tainting” of the 2.1.1 release distribution. The funny thing here is, if you updated to 2.1.1 early enough, or if you got the sources directly from the Subversion repository, you’re “safe.” Well, relatively safe. They apparently […]

In the latest DreamHost newsletter, DreamHost offers an apology for the recent outages. Actually, they don’t offer an apology in the newsletter, they make stupid excuses and then point to their self-titled “Super Lame Apology.” At least they got one thing right. I find almost every line in the newsletter to be laughable, so I’d […]

I was honored to be a guest on Scotty’s excellent Late Night Cocoa podcast. Those of you who have been regular listeners will notice that my episode is about twice the length of most of the previous episodes. What can I say? I like to talk. This episode will be of interest (I hope!) to […]