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 […]
I can’t really take the high road when it comes to defensive HTML form flexibility. I distinctly remember trying to convince our designer at my last job that trimming extra spaces at the end of a URL wasn’t necessary because the user […]
A reader from Omaha, NE writes: Dear Klep, What are your thoughts on this whole Ajax phenomenon in webapp development? That’s a great question. It’s almost like I wanted to answer that question and fabricated the query just to set up the […]
With my wife out of town for work, I decided to attend SuperHappyDevHouse 2, an all-night gathering of elite coders, their laptops, and about a dozen power strips. The idea is terrific — get people together to work on whatever they want. […]
Yesterday I bought a new video card for my “I hate my new TiVo and want to build my own” project. Unfortunately, it only had S-Video out and my TV only has RCA and Coax in. So I headed to my friendly […]
I finally bought my PowerBook — it’s been about 6 years since I bought a Mac. Those who know me know that I will go to great lengths to get a deal. I was especially concerned with this purchase because I figure […]
Now that this blog has over a hundred subscribers and has received multiple awards, I think it’s time to move onto something more sophisticated than blosxom. I’m moving over to WordPress. The old feed will still work. If you are a subscriber […]
Note: This embarassingly self-absorbed message is a parody of this other embarassingly self-absorbed message from 7+ years ago: http://www.scottkleper.com/crossplatform.txt Local Geek Becomes Local Mac Geek (Again) 06/07/05 San Francisco, CA — Scott J. Kleper, reluctant security architect and PADI-certified scuba diver, announced […]