My ThinkPad t42p is less than two years old, and today it became a paper weight — I hope temporarily.
Thursday Update: Yes, it seems that it was temporary!
“Fan error”
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Monthly Archives: August 2007
I Want To Be PHP Dangerous
Although, I’m surrounded by PHP masters, and PHP programming isn’t in my job description, I want to be at least “PHP dangerous”.
WordPress 2.3 Beta!
The final month of WordPress 2.3 development is upon us! Download the first beta of 2.3!
Users, Customers, Members
I dislike being called a “user” almost as much as I dislike being called a “consumer”.
All Text Is Encoded
And when migrating WordPress you have to remember this.
I spend some of my time helping people migrate to WordPress from other blogging platforms or helping them move between hosts.
All text on computers is encoded. There is no such thing as plain text.
Flushing Blue Toilet Cleaner of Death!
Microsoft, after finding that the blue screen of death wasn’t having the same amount of market “penetration”, and since the hourglass cursor had never been as successful as Apple Mac OS X’s Spinning Beach Ball of Death , for Windows Vista Microsoft created the spinning ring. 
What do you call it? Do you talk nice to it?
Here for your pleasure, super-sized (which doesn’t happen nearly enough these days) and superimposed onto the original size, the Flushing Blue Toilet Cleaner of Death!
Code Rush!
I met up with friend, former colleague, and current Flocker Richard Phan to watch the hour documentary Code Rush last night.
Little Ones
While in Vancouver Saturday Julia and I also visited Nadia and Andrew Frost and their wonderful one week old baby boy, Maxime.
BarCamp Vancouver
A day late, but not a dollar short — its a free event… well, I donated $20; it was either that or get one of the pink shirts 
BarCamp Vancouver sessions are in full swing.
Generously hosted at Workspace — what an awesome environment!
Thank you to all of the organizers and participants!
Why does WordPress treat spam comments nicer than other moderated comments?
I think I just accidentally deleted a comment in WordPress moderation. The irony struck me, that if I had accidentally marked it as spam, then I could have rescued it from the Spam queue.
WordPress lead developer Mark Jaquith has proposed adding Undo functionality which I think is very important!
Mark says this idea was inspired by Robert Hoekman, Jr. book Designing the Obvious
Would the trash metaphor also be useful for deleted posts and comments? I didn’t find any related ideas, so maybe it is just me. I wonder, but I think the first gate is getting undo functionality.
