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Salt Lake City WordPress Meetup This Wednesday 26 Aug 2013 | 06:15 pm
The Salt Lake City WordPress Meetup is happening this Wednesday, August 28th. Brian Petty is going to talk about how to report bugs and submit patches back to the WordPress project. It will be at the...
The End of Groklaw? 20 Aug 2013 | 08:11 pm
PJ on shutting down Groklaw: The owner of Lavabit tells us that he’s stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we’d stop too. There is no way to do Groklaw without email. Therein lies the con...
U.S. Federal Budget Deficits 19 Aug 2013 | 05:54 pm
An op-ed piece in the New York Times by Paul Krugman mentioned U.S. budget deficits and their trends. I’ve looked at the U.S. total federal debt ( History Of The Federal Debt and Percentage Change in ...
Fewer HTTP Verbs 14 Aug 2013 | 09:27 pm
Brett Slatkin suggests that we reduce the number of verbs in HTTP 2.0: Practically speaking there are only two HTTP verbs: read and write, GET and POST. The semantics of the others (put, head, option...
HackerMeter Password Policy 13 Aug 2013 | 07:19 pm
I created an account on HackerMeter to see what the coding exercises looked like. I didn’t even finish creating my account before I was hit with a major disappointment: A site meant to help rank hack...
The Weapon of Terrorism 12 Aug 2013 | 07:20 pm
… there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists. Terrorism is simply the weapon by which the weak engage t...
Skype Password Policy 9 Aug 2013 | 06:49 pm
The 20 character limit does not fill me with confidence.
WordCamp Salt Lake City 2013 8 Aug 2013 | 07:55 pm
WordCamp Salt Lake City is back for 2013! This year we are moving the location to Sandy, Utah, which should make it easier for our friends in Utah county. The big day is Saturday 21 September 2013. ...
Golf Ball Mystery 29 Jul 2013 | 10:08 pm
The street gutter outside of my house has an odd mystery. There is what appears to be a golf ball in the cement: It is common to see initials or hand prints in cement, but this is the only time I’ve ...
Android Devices as the new AOL CD 26 Jul 2013 | 01:47 am
Tech companies with mobile apps can practically tile walls with outdated Android devices. They’re the new AOL CDs. A footnote from Marco Arment on the Android tablet-usage gap. Definitely not a comp...
