I have opened myself to charges of the most monstrous hypocrisy by championing open source and free software while simultaneously using proprietary systems here and there, hither and yon. I hold my hand up to the sin of being inconsistent – hypocrisy is going a bit far I think. I am no purist or fanatic … Continue reading Stephen Fry on Ideological Maximalism
Category: What I’m Thinking About
Big and small things I’m working on.
I can’t see video MMS on my Android phone.
Sure you can.
UK Red Lines
The UK government has a new policy for controlling IT contracts, and it's worth importing to the United States.
Did your Chromecast stop working?
Mine, too. I have two Airport routers. Things were working great for a little over a month. Then the Chromecast disappeared. After a thousand reboots and reconfigurations, here's what fixed it: set the channel on the 2.4GHz network. It instantly reappeared on all my devices. Chromecast engineers: die in a fire.
WordPress Page Titles, Filters, and Child Themes
How a WordPress child theme can override and replace its parent's wp_title() filter. Riveting stuff.
Broadband CAPEX means broadband quality.
The folks over at AEI didn't care for the recent Planet Money episode on US broadband policy. Specifically, the notion that US retail Internet service is abysmal. They did not convince me.
The HOST Program
The Open Security Technology program at DHS can help with stuff like Heartbleed. They're underfunded.
IT Culture is a lie.
"Culture" is meaningless, lazy, and absolves us of responsibility for our work. So stop saying it.
Wikipedia, Design, and Consensus
Co.Design has a short piece on the attempted redesign of Wikipedia. The team was open and transparent, and the reactionaries poured out of the woodwork. It's an object lesson in collaborative design work.
Chrome RSS Icon Status: Restored
RSS Subscription Extension is broken. I figured out how to get my orange RSS icon back where it belongs.
a technology job is no excuse 