David E. Weekly — Blog

Some of you may have noticed that david.weekly.org was down last week for several days.

This article describes modern ad-blocking technique, their effectiveness, and how advertisers are likely to work around them....

The PS3 will be significant for Blu-Ray.

I'm still a business newbie, I'll admit it.

This article explains why thin form-factor servers like blades may not be a good idea....

This article describes a system for making useful transcripts of Voice over IP VoIP chats....

The Intellectual Property Wage Slave or Why You Should Quit Your Job A study of the productivity of software programmers shows the most talented coders to be over 100 times more efficient than the meanest.

A few days ago, it occured to me that it would be useful if my alarm clock knew to awake me an hour before my first appointment of the day, as automatically pulled down from my Yahoo!

A number of friends have asked me of late what my take is on podcasting.

The cell phone market bugs me.

So here we are, post-election, and George Bush has won.

Your blog can and will be used against you in a court of law....

So I'm back from Ghana, safe and sound minus a nasty cold I picked up on some continent.

Oh, every day has such ups and downs!

I just got done teaching the morning session; with two classes a session and two sessions a day, I have to lecture the same material four times, all while trying to keep the kids excited and engaged.

Busy Internet strikes again.

I'm at "Busy Internet" in Accra right now.

So I'm writing this from a computer lab in Accra; it's nicely modern, with about 50 pentium 4-2000 machines, but it's about 1500ms to anything really interesting on the Internet backbone and the speed's not that fabulous.

Oh boy.

I would like to thank President Bush for his efforts to expand democracy around the world.

The following is the poem "Ithaca" by the famous Greek poet Cavafy, in its translation by Rae Dalven, the original Greek, and also with my own horribly-bastardized pronunciation guide for the Greek.

I wrote the following letter to my pastor Brian Emmet at Covenant Ministries1, in response to his latest newsletter2, which decried permitting homosexual marriages....

The middle east is pretty damn annoying.

I've recently employed a very simple mechanism for spam control.

This message was posted on October 27, 2003 to a mailing list in response to a post that claimed that IPv6 would be widespread by 2005 due to an IPv4 address shortage.

For protocols there's Ethernet, TCP, IP, UDP, AIM in ICQ, OSCAR, and TOC flavors!

Unicode1 is just about the coolest thing since sliced bread.

I've learned a lot in the last two years about what it means to be professional.

DISCLAIMER...

Over the last few days a subtle error on the part of our home's gateway to the Internet rendered Google1 inaccessible.

Apache administrators: beware ETags if you have more than one webserver!

Written mid-2002, this is a letter from the future....

Just now, I did something horribly mean.

Looking at the great inventions and awesome creations of art that humankind has collectively produced, I can't help but notice a common theme: the need for leisure.

originally posted to the Apache Development mailing list...

sidestory how i got my laptop...

I find myself dealing sometimes and indeed am guilty of a phenomenon that I would like to call "Presumed Backing."...

So, I just found a new place to move into.

\The following letter was sent regarding recent lanugage in the FTAA draft agreement that would require, effectively, all nations in the Americas South and North to make it illegal to reverse engineer copyright-protection software.

There are, in my view now, two kinds of optimism.

There have been a definite lack of updates to my website over the last half year early 2001-mid 2001.

written for the pho list I think that those of you who have known me and my progression of thoughts throughout this whole insane MP3 thing so far have know that I've \tried\ to keep a semblance of perspective on things.

Just for the sheer, unadulterated hell of it, I'll put some aphorisms of mine here.

Realtime textual dialog, such as in IRC, ICQ, AIM, or ytalk, is a unique communication form.

I'm hired.

written for the pho list...

written august 13, 1999...

written for the pho list...

There is a fundamental problem with energy conservation as it relates to homes that are rented from a central organization, such as a realtor.

The first dot-com boom has come and gone and we now find ourselves in the gritty interim period, where only innovation, cunning, and realized profits will save us and bring us back to prosperity.