The Tamil Tiger rebel group in Sri Lanka appears to have invented the world’s first guerrilla air force: A Tamil Tiger light aircraft bombed a Sri Lankan air force base next to Colombo international airport before dawn on Monday, killing three airmen and wounding 16 in the first such air strike by the rebel group. […]

An idea for improving Firefox spell-check

Debian founder hired to coordinate Sun’s OS strategy

It never ends

An example from Boston

This means YOU, bub

A common use for TypoScript (at least on my TYPO3 sites) is to dynamically generate lists and menus of other content items in the CMS, based on some set of criteria, and then insert these into a page. For example, I might want to have a “5 most recent items posted to site section X” […]

If you’re looking for something to listen to during your commute, and you like history, I highly recommend Lars Brownworth’s excellent “12 Byzantine Rulers” series of podcasted lectures. Mr. Brownworth is a history teacher in New York who developed “12 Byzantine Rulers” as a way to share his love for the history of the later […]

Would it kill you to assign accesskeys to your search results? Years of computer use have left me with a mild case of repetitive stress injury, so I try to avoid using the mouse as much as possible — it’s much easier to do everything from the keyboard. However, browsing search results via the keyboard […]

Don’t make it easy for identity thieves — protect yourself by opting out of pre-screened credit card offers

It’s easy! Seriously. It’s easy