Archive for November 2004

November 2004

Nov. 1, 2004

Cache decorator in Python 2.4 (via) Nothing like a good example to understand why decorators are a cool language feature.

# 1:15 pm

User Education Is Not the Answer to Security Problems. Smart thinking on security from Jakob Nielsen.

# 1:22 pm / jakob-nielsen, security, usability

Let a thousand conspiracy theories bloom

I’m about to hit the sack, but current indications are that Bush has won Ohio by a couple of percentage points and thus has been re-elected as President of the United States.

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6:18 am

Kerry concedes. Gutted.

# 4:29 pm

Nov. 4, 2004

Woke up this mornin’, got the election blues. How George Bush’s victory catapaulted liberal Britain into collective depression

# 1:03 pm

Wikipedia Firefox extension (via) Adds Wiki-markup shortcuts to the context menu.

# 1:50 pm

Uncollapsing Margins (Complex Spiral Consulting) (via) Another critical CSS concept explained.

# 2:15 pm

Open source license help needed

Every now and then, I get an e-mail asking me to clarify the license associated with code that I’ve posted on this site, such as my date parsing script. I’m looking for an open source license that I can start slapping on things to ensure people that they can use it for whatever they want, but wading through the list of licenses is no fun at all. Here are the features I’m looking for:

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12:34 am

BitTorrent accounts for 35% of the internet’s bandwidth (via) No longer off the radar of the media industry.

# 12:01 pm

Voting machine error gives Bush 3,893 extra votes in Ohio. The machines were from Danaher, not diebold.

# 10:36 pm

Your Vote Counts: Voting Equipment Information for Franklin County. Comical video, considering the news about the voting machines.

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