When built it will be the largest US based solar plant:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/14863899.htm
I can’t wait for cheap solar. Yes I’m some kind of a hippy.
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A quick note:
I wasn’t able to edit my K2 styles from within Wordpress edit themes interface. I solved this by creating a symbolic link to the .css file from with the K2 directory. From your K2 dir ( blog/wp-content/themes/k2 ):
ln -s styles/mystyle.css mystyle.css
Problem solved!
It seemed inevitable, ICANN has finally voted no on the proposed .xxx domain. Political pressure by uninformed knee jerk reactionaries, have killed what would have been a elegant solution to one of the age old problems facing the net. This is bad news for families all around the world.
I’m wasting my breath now, but let me give you two real world examples:
ONE: I’m eight years old. I’m wandering through the video store alone. I don’t accidently stumble across any pornographic material, because it’s all contained in seperate area where I am not allowed. The data, considered offensive to some, is segregrated, voluntarily, by a cardboard partition. Now if I find that data an affront to all I believe in, I attack that. I don’t attack the partition that keeps my kids from accessing it!
TWO: It’s the nineties. A nice old lady is on the phone with her local ISP, she wants to know how to find information on the Internet. The friendly helpdesk guy points her to www.hotbot.com. Unfortunately she is hard of hearing and types in www.hotbox.com. “Why did you send me here?” this poor woman asks. There is no partition! Even if the owner of hotbox would prefer hotbox.xxx, he can’t have it. He doesn’t have that opportunity to mark his material as sexually explicit. Now the owner of HOT BOX® trademarked insulated enclosures might want www.hotbox.com, but he can’t have it.
The reality is that there are over 260 million porn sites out there, bringing in over 2.5 billion dollars. Ninety percent of all kids have viewed online porn, most while doing homework. Now I’m not saying that the .xxx domain is a perfect solution, but it is better than where we are now.
WP-Cache 2 is a great tool to speed up Wordpress 2 w/ K2. When I first tried to install it, I couldn’t get the darn thing to work. Eventually I downgraded PHP from 5.1.2 to 4.4.2. That did the trick. Just thought I would post in case someone else is encountering the same issue.
Google seems to be getting slow at indexing, and a little top heavy. Many of my searches seem to contain lots of noise and outdated information these days. Microsoft definitely has an opening. Amazon has dropped Google and turned to Microsoft for their search engine results. It begs the question; why? Maybe Microsoft has something going here. It’s time to take a look at Microsoft Live Search.
Continue reading ‘Comparing Google to Microsoft Live Search’
For the past couple of years I’ve been using Password Safe, a tool originally written by Bruce Schneier. I’ve stuck with it mainly because I appreciate being able to run it from a usb keychain. It’s a simple .exe and works very well. However it only runs on Windows, a drawback to an iBook owner.
Enter Keepass. It has all the features I like about Password Safe. It’s a small executable, with no install necessary to run it. It’s got a multitude of features and includes a really nice password generator.
Password Safe is vulnerable to keylogger attacks. What isn’t? Keepass gives you a couple of options to help prevent snooping. It allows you to place a key on a disc, to further secure your database. You need to insert the disc, to access your db. Combined with a strong password this is good security. There is also an on-screen keyboard plugin, for the real paranoid.
Keepass:
http://keepass.sourceforge.net/index.php
Password Safe:
http://www.schneier.com/passsafe.html
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