Merry Christmas Rory Fans!
I’ve got a little holiday gift for you Rory fans. That’s right! I’ve fixed the Rory Vote-O-Matic. Thanks to Ryan F. and Gary S. for providi...
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Posts published in 2006
Vote for Rory Helper
The NHL web developers have finally improved the captcha system on the NHL All-Star Game voting web site. I say “improved” because they still hav...
A letter to those opposed to automatic voting
I’ve gotten a considerable amount of comments and e-mail demanding that I take down the Rory Vote-O-Matic from this site, stating that it is morally wr...
Vote for Rory. He would vote for you.
UPDATE: I’ve created an installable Firefox Add-on that makes it even easier and quicker to vote for Rory. Check out the Rory Vote-O-Matic Add-on for F...
Automatic Updates for WordPress
Wouldn’t it be excellent if your installation of WordPress could patch itself with the latest security update? Well, I’ve thought of a way to do ...
+1 Mac User
After considering it for about three years now, I’ve finally taken the leap from a PC to a Mac. Ever since Sean brought a Powerbook in to school in our...
Redesigned and refocused on usability
The last time I redesigned this site I had a lot of ideas that had been gathering in my head, on little notepads, and in e-mails that all went into the desig...
DivX Stage6 kicks online video a$$
So until I read this post today I thought YouTube and Google Video were great, but now I realize that they are just good. They both could have the quality an...
Upgrading a MySQL database when you don’t know the schema changes
We use an open source web application called osTicket to manage our e-mails for Zenutech. Unfortunately the osTicket project is controlled by a hosting compa...
O’Reilly Open Source Convention
Tomorrow I am off to Portland, Oregon with ActiveState for their annual participation in OSCON. I will be working at our booth greeting folks, showing off ou...