This is rarely a good sign in the publishing industry: USA Today to Remake Itself to Stress Digital Operations I give them credit that they’ve realized that a general-interest newspaper distributed mostly at airports, hotels (the only two places I’ve ever read it) and restaurants can no longer compete with free papers like the Metro [...]

The news today is that Google is ending Wave development and only committing to keeping the Wave site up until the end of the year. Was anyone surprised by this? I was skeptical of Google Wave from the beginning for the simple reason that if someone tells you that their hard to describe product will [...]

I needed to do some mailserver reconfiguring tonight and found this Howto to be very useful. Of course, I have a goofy directory structure for virtual mail that still made it a bit of a chore, but not too badly.

I dug into some log files today and discovered that it was a year ago today that I switched from Windows to Ubuntu.

Yes, 14 years ago today I shamelessly swiped the name “webgurus” from the other web developers at TIAC and, uh, haven’t done that much “worthwhile” with it since, according to some people. (no, I will not sell it to you)

No posts for a month? What’s the deal? Long story short, I am now gainfully employed writing and executing browser-based regression tests for a company in Pittsburgh. I spent two weeks there for training & orientation and am now back home, telecommuting full-time. This plus the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays have kept me pretty busy. [...]