I don’t travel much because I don’t like to go more than a day or two without checking the mail. I also don’t like being in places where I don’t know the language and have to do math to figure out how […]
It’s nice to know that should anything happen with my current Marni, another is just a click away. Is there anything that can’t be bought on the Internet?
Please remove the sarcasm from my previous post about Ajax. I won’t go so far as to say that I have reversed my opinion, but I will admit that I was focusing on the wrong part of Ajax. I am currently building […]
Last week, I received this coupon for matzo at the Safeway checkout. All I had purchased that day was a container of Safeway brand Butternut Squash soup — hardly the epitome of Jewish food. What possible reason could Safeway have for giving […]
Several people have asked me what it was like to write a tech book so I thought I’d describe the overall process for the benefit of others who are considering it. Getting the Gig The deal came about in a roundabout way. […]
When I was in High School, I did pretty well in AP English, but it wasn’t entirely deserved. Much of the class involved reading something and writing an interpretation. Every time our teacher (the extraordinary Doc Taylor) would tell us the correct […]
Working as a UI developer for four years at an XML Security Company doesn’t make you a security expert. But somehow, it does make you notice bad security when you see it. Today, I bring you four examples of ridiculous security policies […]
This isn’t one of those “Technology X Sucks” articles (this one is one of those). I just don’t really understand why people use standalone RSS readers or even web-based readers. I’m not knocking RSS at all — I love it. I currently […]
Since, thanks to O’Reilly, everything cool these days is presented as a list of hacks, I present the first installment of Personal Finance Hacks. These are tips that I’ve collected over the past several years as I’ve explored different investments and bought […]
The EFF is holding a “Blog for Freedom” Blog-a-thon where participants are supposed to blog about their personal experiences fighting for freedom online. Since I have no personal experience with fighting for freedom online (other than joining the EFF), I decided to […]