Time warp at my desk

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Using an IBM Model M keyboard next to a Magic Trackpad is like time-traveling three and a half decades every time you move your hands.

The Web is the best app store

Funny how things have come full circle: Apple releases iPhone, tells the market that third parties should make web apps The market isn’t ready for web apps, pressures Apple into releasing a native app SDK and distribution channel The market can’t tolerate Apple’s control over the app store, circumvents it with web apps (Kindle and Readability moved to web … Read more

Important security note for WordPress users

There’s a vulnerability in a piece of software called timthumb.php that is used by some self-hosted WordPress themes and plugins for image manipulation (not WordPress.com.) If you have shell access to your web server, go to your web root directory and run: find -name timthumb.php (If you can’t do it through the shell, check your … Read more