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Simple way to chain WordPress themes together for easier code management.
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Probably a good idea to put as many free tools out there to sniff out web security problems as possible. It raises awareness of the problem, solves some common issues, and builds a market for more sophisticated tools.
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Have an opinion, be concrete, be direct, and be a contrarian. If I remember nothing else about writing this blog, hopefully I can remember these points.
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Pointer to the Onion’s “Bush Tours America to Survey Damage Caused by His Disastrous Presidency.” I miss the days when the Onion did print rather than video, but they work a funny concept here.
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Hook Spotlight into the cloud to search your online docs. Nice.
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Useful for finding out if you’re being spied upon, among other use cases.
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The problem solving process for resolving a very nasty Delicious Library bug. Great reading. Go buy Delicious Library.
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Nice exercise in UI design for a humble Preferences window.
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Heh. A great collection of Adobe error messages.
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A shrinking planet with an active iron core and water. Nice for a first flyby.
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Maybe someday I’ll be this cool. Or have this much time to futz around with pork bellies.
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Options to eliminate the WordPress version number from your source code.
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More thinking about tightening the security profile of web applications. Bonus: some pointers to tightening security for blog CMSes, including WordPress.
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Different categories of product, and the importance of moving from a category sell to a product sell.
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Thorough evaluation of the security of WordPress. Must read.
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Useful! Except my Firefox 3 hasn’t crashed yet.
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Never doubt the power of indexing.
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Wow, just…wow. Needless to say, all my hopes go to the Maestro for a quick recovery, but damn.
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“The Council on Environmental Quality and the office of the vice president were seeking deletions to the CDC testimony (concerning) … any discussions of the human health consequences of climate change.”
Day: July 8, 2008
Quote of the day
Courtesy the excellent Harper’s Weekly (links to news sources inlined):
Colombian military commandos infiltrated a settlement operated by the guerilla group FARC and freed 15 hostages, among them three U.S. contractors and the Colombian-French politician Ingrid Betancourt. President George W. Bush called Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to congratulate him. “What a joyous occasion it must be to know that the plan had worked,” said Bush. “That people who were unjustly held were now free to be with their families.” A federal appeals court ruled that evidence against Hozaifa Parhat, a Chinese Muslim held at Guantanamo Bay for six years, consisted of nothing more than the reassertion of his guilt in three top-secret documents. “Lewis Carroll notwithstanding,” wrote one judge, quoting “The Hunting of the Snark,” “the fact the government has ‘said it thrice’ does not make the allegation true.”
Let’s hope for many other happy endings like Hozaifa Parhat’s.