fighting the lack of good ideas
Why has no one come up with an email routing/sending system that can use multiple at (@) signs? For example, why not have an author@antipaucity.com@apple.com? The email could be routed to both auther@antipaucity, and @apple – and/or could force-route mail through the first mail system (presuming credentials were available). Let the flames spark.
An addition to my previous post on patents is due. If you are a non-producing entity, ie you have a patent “just to have it” (you’re a company, not a person, and you only have patents to use as legal ammunition), you relinquish rights to sue over infringement. If you are not producing anything the…
There are a few biggies that stick out in my mind to be thankful for this year: my wife Christina a great job – the customers aren’t always amazing, but my job is pretty darn good being on the waiting list for our adoption from Ethiopia family – extended and immediate friends – all over the country and world
I found the Auto Tweet plugin today and have added it along with several others to the pantheon of WordPress additions that make up this blog. WP is awesome – the plugin architecture is super cool. But there are times when I wonder why more of the plugins haven’t been made core aspects of the product…
I am now running an official Haiku mirror: haiku.datente.com. Alpha 4.1 has been released, and you can get a copy from any of the mirrors.
This year’s election results seem to – again – be confusing a LOT of people. The incumbent presidential candidate, Mr Obama, won ~51% of the popular vote. His main opponent, Mr Romney, won ~48% of the popular vote. However, when you look at the electoral votes (the only ones that really matter), you see a different picture:…
In Neal Stephenson’s seminal book, Cryptonomicon, he describes the creation of a “data haven” in the fictional Sultanate of Kinakuta. Why has no-one started building such a service (or, at least not in a public way) on existing cloud services (eg AWS or Rackspace) and/or create their own global network? Data backup and replication is not…