Ryan Sholin

Category: Technology

  • The first rule about AT&T services

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    Via Journerdism, BoingBoing, and Slashdot, in that order, comes this excerpt from AT&T Terms of Service on a bellsouth site: “5.1 Suspension/Termination. Your Service may be suspended or terminated if your payment is past due and such condition continues un-remedied for thirty (30) days. In addition, AT&T may immediately terminate or suspend all or a…

  • Upgrade in progress; mind the gap

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    I’m in the middle of an upgrade to WordPress 2.3, but I’m getting pulled away to other duties before I finish straightening out importing old UTW tags to the new 2.3 built-in tagging hotness. So a few things, like tags, are broken at the moment. I’ll update later (tonight?) when I fix them. But, hey,…

  • Is your newspaper.com is a big ball of mud?

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    Is your newspaper site a clean-looking, uniform grid of semantic (and validated!) code? Or is it a ‘big ball of mud,’ with includes (scotch tape) and javascript (bubble gum) holding together a jumble of disparate hunks of content? If you answered ‘YES’ to the first question, congratulations, you work at the New York Times, or…

  • How’s that whole melting MacBook thing going?

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    A lazyweb inquiry: Does the current run of MacBooks (not the Pros) still have any sort of serious overheating problem? We’re pretty close to replacing a certain laptop in our stable (not mine) and the question keeps coming up. So what’s the deal? Did this problem every get solved? Do we have months of scorched…

  • Why I love the Internet

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    Because shortly before our daughter arrived, I ordered a webcam from Amazon. It was here when we got back from the hospital, and it took about 15 minutes of setup to start streaming video via Skype to four grandparents spread across North and South America. The only hard part? Not scratching myself wrong in the…

  • I’m in ur FTP clientz putting ur clothez back on

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    It’s not midnight here yet, or I’d be fast asleep (partying UCSC student neighbors have no effect on me when the head hits the pillow), but it’s late enough to flick the stylesheet back on. Thanks to everyone who got naked with me. And everyone who made amusing remarks about it on Twitter. And to…

  • Get naked for the day

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    It’s CSS Naked Day. Strip off those stylesheets and show the world the clean, semantic HTML you’ve been hiding deep inside, in your inner being, under all those layers and background images. Oh, but could someone please remind me to turn the styles back on tomorrow morning? Thanks.

  • A progress report on the patient

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    The laptop, that is.

  • Resist the urge to buy that refurbished laptop

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    Especially that blue Toshiba model that you see for around $1,000 when that’s exactly what you can afford to spend. Back in December 2004, I did my research, I comparison shopped, and I bought a lemon.  A refurbished lemon with a 90-days-only warranty at that. I’m not going to get into model numbers and vendors…

  • Is your newspaper Twittering?

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    I’ve been playing with Twitter all week.  Feel free to play along. It’s an interesting little social tool that’s blown up in the last few months, with SXSW standing out as a take-up point for early adopters. Dave Winer has even been toying around with feeding it rivers of news from some sources, which once…