Just when I thought there weren't that many things I cared enough to rant about. I am hoping the papers jumped the gun and released one of their April 1st hoaxes early. If not, this is the worst news I have read in a week: A new party that are calling themselves the "islam democrats" [...]

Sometimes when I read old posts on my blog, it makes me realize I've matured a bit over the last few years. I used to write a lot of irate rants on various topics, but often when I stumble over an old rant of mine, I usually don't care that passionately about the topic any [...]

I started reading Dave Allens "Getting Things Done" a while back. Ironically, I didn't finish it. Many people have joined this particular cult, and I am about to don the robes and drums and heading for the nearest airport. Though I still haven't finished the book, my initial impression of of the idea made a [...]

The "Brian's Threaded Comments" plugin has become popular beyond my wildest intentions or expectations. I think the install-base numbers in the tens of thousands. I've never really taken a look around the internet to see what people were saying about it, partially because I have other things to do, but also because it didn't really [...]

I recently came across a Mac OS X Network Tuning Guide, which has some really good tips. I got most out of the tip where he suggests adding these lines to your sysctl.conf: kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=500000 net.inet.tcp.sendspace=250000 net.inet.tcp.recvspace=250000 This upped the speed quite a bit on my gigabit network.