So, in tonight's class, the instructor mentioned in passing that CSS 3.0 includes a command to the effect of "and, if you don't have this font, download it from here." Cruel man that I am, I immediately thought of Futhark, Futhorc, and Fraktur.

I'll let http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/10/can-i-please-go-back-to-my-home-timeline-now.html answer that:

If you had told me four years ago that come October 2010 I would be forecasting that highly-efficient American steel companies would be operating at only 70% of normal capacity in 2011, that the U.S. Treasury would be able to borrow for 30 ( Read more... )

I am looking into setting up a web site for someone else. While I found quite a few ads for hosting companies, the only comments on quality and reliability that I've found for them have the distinct feeling of ads. What I want is ( Read more... )

One thing I've often had difficulty understanding, is why people so often reject the truth. It turns out that was the theme for a recent edition of New Scientist magazine.

This depressing tale is the latest incarnation of denialism, the systematic rejection of a body of science in favour of make-believe. There's a lot of it about, attacking ( Read more... )

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What happens when you put a snarky EOD (or "bomb disposal technician," as the UK apparently calls them) together with the Christmas Day bomb failure? A rather amusing romp through why enhancing security even more is like the WPA with guns.

Comment As the smoke clears following the case of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the failed Christmas Day " ( Read more... )

So, it turns out the universe as we know it may be a hologram. Including, presumably, us, without knowing it.

All the world's a holodeck, and all the people merely projections?

My home PC is a bit like the car in the Johnny Cash song One Piece at a Time. Unlike 'ol Johnny, though, there isn't any theft involved; I've simply replaced the part that failed, and nothing else. Given how rapidly computer technology has been advancing, I call the net result upgrading by hardware failure; even if I go for the absolute cheapest ( Read more... )

I live in a home with two computer users, and one DSL line. Over the couple of years this has been a two-computer house, I've tried to share connections with two separate, purchased external routers. No success ( Read more... )

So, I thought I'd spend a couple of hours looking at things laureth didn't like about her computer. That turned out to consume far more time than I'd anticipated -- as in, all afternoon and the part of the evening that makes sense for me to be awake. I appear to have fixed all but one of her PC complaints, at least ( Read more... )