Background
I originally wrote this several weeks ago when installing Ubuntu’s Edgy Eft on a defunct Windows laptop we had, but never got around to editing it properly.  The laptop went belly-up again and just tonight I installed Edubuntu on the same machine and refined my documentation after going through the steps to get WPA2 WiFi […]

In Choices = Headaches Joel Spolsky discusses the multitude of options a computer user must sort through to turn of their computer:
“The more choices you give people, the harder it is for them to choose, and the unhappier they’ll feel.”
and

“Inevitably, you are going to think of a long list of intelligent, defensible reasons why […]

I suspect most will have heard about Pandora; the company was reviewed by TechCrunch, and the free release was publicized there as well. I first heard about the idea on an NPR segment about Pandora’s parent, the Music Genome Project.
I don’t know what I can add to Michael’s original review at TechCrunch, but I […]

Is anyone out there running a custom attention-recording service, a la the Attention Toolkit?
I’m having some troubles with the new version of the AttentionRecorder extension and custom services. Essentially it’s worked intermittently in Firefox 1.5, but then inexplicably seems to stop recording. It seem to be related to adding a custom service, but […]

I’ve found a problem with the Structured Blogging WordPress plug-in, namely that it generates non-valid XHTML.
I haven’t done a lot of background poking at it, but my evidence is that when I attempted to validate my blog against The W3C Markup Validation Service. I came up with 180 errors (most of which are my […]

The contents of my email to my hosting company regarding their misguided bittorrent policy:
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I read today that 1and1 is implementing a support policy regarding bittorrent files, and further that this policy is misguided.
This is unfortunate and must be reconsidered. The bittorrent technology is capable of vast and important non-infringing uses. I use it […]

Nivi : Greasemonkey will blow up business models (as well as your mind)
It lets you use their web site, their data, their servers, their work to serve your purpose and function. There will soon be an army of hackers enhancing every site you use. Whether that site likes it or not.
Babak Nivi posts a good […]

There’s a really interesting discussion going on in the comments to this post.
It’s extremely interesting and a little unusual to see so many heavy-hitters weighing in and the ideas developing in “real time”. Typically to watch this kind of thing (if you can be a party to it at all) you have to bounce […]