The Romney campaign’s great IT failure
Ars Technica has a great analysis of “Team Romney’s whale of an IT meltdown.” Regardless of your political views, if you are involved in any large IT project this is… Read more »
What to watch for on Election Night
As Election Day approaches it looks like a pretty tight race. The polls tend to favor President Obama but his lead is usually within the margin of error. A lot… Read more »
More aLinks Fixes
I fixed a problem with WordPress 3.4.2 I added an option to enable/disable aLinks’s internal cache. In fact I left it off by default. Unless your database is on a… Read more »
Presidential Candidate Phone Apps Threaten Privacy
A word to the wise: before you download that smartphone app for your favorite candidate you should read The Register: Don’t download that app: US presidential candidates will STALK you… Read more »
Security Fail Award of the Month
There are endless competitors for this, but surely some sort of major stupidity award is due to the Dollar Rent-a-Car password system as described by Geoff Kuenning: But the winner… Read more »
Time Zones and Daylight Saving Time in Java
You might think this would be simple but I actually spent a fair amount of time last week tracking down some confusing bugs. The problem is that the official documentation… Read more »
Apple will decline after Steve Jobs…
A lot of the value in Apple has come from the ineptitude of other companies and the passion and willingness of early adopters to spend huge money. There are inherent… Read more »
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone
“I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to… Read more »
When Ethicists Steal
A bizarre crime story with interesting computer security implications was revealed today when Aaron Swartz, a co-founder of the online news site Reddit and a Fellow at the Harvard University… Read more »
Circle Privacy in Google+
i just started playing with Google+ and I noticed that by default the list of members of your Circles is visible to everyone on the web. This is similar to… Read more »