Archive for September, 2004

Fighting Ignorance

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

Today I went to see a lecture by James Randi. James Randi offer a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event. The lecture was very informative and funny. There are so many people out there who believe in weird things. He [...]

Russia okays Kyoto

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

Hopefully this means that the worlds greatest polutor, the United States of America, will sign it soon.

Clean MT Comments

Thursday, September 16th, 2004

Since MT-Blacklist does not work with my Movable Type installation and the MT admin interface for comments is slow as fuck I created my own interface for removing comments.
I started out by entering SQL queries directly into PostgreSQL shell and then created a simple XHTML interface for it. The UI shows a table with some [...]

RSS Sucks

Sunday, September 12th, 2004

Just think about it. How would your mother, father or some other person that is computer illiterate be able to to make use of RSS. Without good support in the browser or OS there is no way that RSS will be something for non geek users.
This all started a few days back when me and [...]

Sage Developer

Thursday, September 9th, 2004

I’m now an official developer for the Sage extension for Mozilla Firefox. Sage used to go under the name RSS Reader but when it went open source it also changed its name. Sage is a light weight RSS reader that integrates with Firefox by displaying a sidebar listing your news feeds.
My main concerns when it [...]