posted by steve | Category: Useful Items That I Forget

Here’s something I forget. Adding a location to the ‘Places’ menu in Ubuntu. Browse to the location, say, /data, and then select Bookmark -> Add. It’d be actually kind of helpful if there was an applet or right-click action within the Places menu itself that enabled a location to be set. I wonder if I’ll ever get time to work on that.

posted by steve | Category: Current Projects | 1 Comment »

After writing sufficiently enough books, MySQL Bible, Linux Firewalls, Beginning Perl Web Development and contributing to other books and other articles, you start to get e-mails. Actually, after one book I was already getting e-mails for assistance. I’ve been contacted from all over the world by fine people who speak in their native language when corresponding. This has been great motivation for me to learn or at least pick up bits of several languages like [...Read more...]

posted by steve | Category: Useful Sites That Everyone Already Knows

I’ll never remember this one. OK, I probably would, but here it is anyway. Guitar Chord Library

posted by steve | Category: Random Rants

Sometimes, with web technology it’s better to just say no. I’m reluctant to point to the exact sites that I saw but there are enough examples that it doesn’t take long to find one. People need to lay off the AJAX a little. I can’t say as though the misuse of AJAX (and whatever other web technology du jour) is the result of overzealous developers because many times it’s business users who want the cool [...Read more...]

posted by steve | Category: Random Rants

The much anticipated bad news was delivered during this morning’s F1 broadcast on Speed. Indeed, the next four Formula One races will not be broadcast on Speed but rather on Fox, one of the four major networks in the U.S. The news is bad enough but it doesn’t stop there. When one considers that the British and French Grands Prix will be tape delayed by several hours for U.S. viewers, the news becomes unbearable and, [...Read more...]

posted by steve | Category: Random Rants

I’m thinking of a number, can you guess what it is?