Technology
November 25, 2004
NASA's WorldWind Project
NASA has released an excellent new open-source project called WorldWind which allows the user to zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth, using high-resolution LandSat imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) elevation data to create a... Continue readingPosted by bcoffee at 12:52 AM | Comments (3) | TrackBack | Permalink
November 20, 2004
Microsoft Loves Firefox
From the Department of Irony comes this latest entry in the browser wars: apparently, Microsoft's Windows Marketplace is extolling the virtues of none other than Mozilla's Firefox. Et tu, Brute? (Click the image for a closer look.)... Continue readingPosted by bcoffee at 8:17 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack | Permalink
October 28, 2004
Bush Website Bars Overseas Visitors
Speaking of computers and Mr. Bush, the Bush/Cheney campaign has taken the unprecedented step of blocking access to their official campaign website by overseas visitors (registration required, get a login here). Visitors to www.georgewbush.com whose connections originate anywhere other than... Continue readingPosted by bcoffee at 7:59 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack | Permalink
October 24, 2004
Fun With Google
Since things seem to be getting a little stressful on the political front, we here at i cant think thought it time to take a laugh break. Go to Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" search (you can find it here) and... Continue readingPosted by bcoffee at 10:57 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack | Permalink
October 10, 2004
Longest E-Mail Address In The World
Now you too can have the longest e-mail address in the world. While I'm not exactly sure why someone would want such a thing, other than perhaps for it's "geek cool" factor, it is now possible to own an e-mail... Continue readingPosted by bcoffee at 5:37 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack | Permalink
September 18, 2004
Kris Krug Interviews Mena Trott
Kris Krug was nice enough to drop me a line the other day to let me know about an excellent interview he did with Mena Trott of Six Apart. The interview goes into some detail concerning the history and future... Continue readingPosted by bcoffee at 8:29 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack | Permalink
September 15, 2004
Schwartz Opens The Niagra Floodgates
And now a little something for the true geeks among us. Jonathan Schwartz, President and COO of Sun Microsystems, has published details on his personal blog of the company's upcoming SPARC processor codenamed "Niagra." With Intel and AMD making such... Continue readingPosted by bcoffee at 10:21 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack | Permalink
September 14, 2004
NewsGator - What's In a Name?
Greg Reinacker is asking the 'net community to volunteer opinions on whether or not he should change the name of his company's signature product NewsGator. Seems that the mere mention of the word "Gator" inspires fear in the hearts of... Continue readingPosted by bcoffee at 11:33 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack | Permalink
Mozilla Releases Firefox 1.0 Preview
The good folks over at mozilla.org this morning reached a significant milestone in the history of web browsing with the long-awaited release of Firefox 1.0 Preview. Featuring an improved pop-up blocker, increased security against spoofed websites, a plugin finder service,... Continue readingPosted by bcoffee at 10:56 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack | Permalink
September 5, 2004
How to Skin a Movable Type Site
Regular readers of this site (all 3 of you) might have noticed that I recently added a drop-down box in the sidebar that allows the user to select a "skin" for the site. Thanks to Dasme over at movablestyle.com for... Continue readingPosted by bcoffee at 10:39 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack | Permalink
August 31, 2004
Movable Type 3.1 Released
As promised, Six Apart today released Movable Type 3.1. Also along with the new release comes the launch of the new Professional Developers Network and a reorganization of the MT Plugins Directory, highlighting all of the plugins that have been... Continue readingPosted by bcoffee at 11:04 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack | Permalink
August 24, 2004
Bug in Movable Type Blacklist 2.0e
It seems that a big, ugly, creepy, crawly bug has surfaced in MTBlacklist v2.0e. The issue only affects users of BerkleyDB, and even then only some users are affected. Jay says that his schedule probably won't allow another interim release... Continue readingPosted by bcoffee at 1:01 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack | Permalink
August 22, 2004
Movable Type Blacklist v2.0e Released
Some of you may have noticed a few days ago a slight breeziness in the weather. If you noticed it, then you more than likely simply shrugged it off as the remnants of hurricane Charley. In fact, that wind that... Continue readingPosted by bcoffee at 12:56 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack | Permalink
July 14, 2004
Doom 3 Goes Gold
OMG!!! D00/\/\ 3 15 H3R3!!! PH34R /\/\3!!! Sorry, but we couldn't help ourselves. After what seems like years of waiting (well, actually, it was years) Doom 3 has finally gone gold. And for those of you who are not deeply... Continue readingPosted by bcoffee at 9:08 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack | Permalink
July 5, 2004
News Flash - E-Mail is Not Private
On June 30 the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals, in the case of United States v. Councilman, officially affirmed what those of us who work in the fields of law and technology already knew; e-mail is not a private... Continue readingPosted by bcoffee at 3:06 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack | Permalink
June 24, 2004
Widespread IIS Attack Surfaces - Attack Sophistication Increases
Yet another in a steady stream of internet attacks employing unusual attack vectors surfaced today. The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) reported this afternoon that a widespread compromise involving Microsoft Internet Information Server 5 has been observed, and is at... Continue readingPosted by bcoffee at 10:02 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack | Permalink
June 16, 2004
Firefox v0.9 Released
Mozilla's latest version of it's cutting-edge development branch showcase browser, Firefox, has been released to an eagerly awaiting internet audience. Lean, mean, and faster than a world-class sprinter on steroids, Firefox is everything one could ask from a browser and... Continue readingPosted by bcoffee at 10:41 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack | Permalink
June 14, 2004
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud!
Tired of all those sites that ask you to register for access, then ask you for every bit of personal information they can possibly think of? Yeah, we are too. The trend has become so pervasive that even newspapers are... Continue readingPosted by bcoffee at 8:06 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack | Permalink
