Smallville featured shower scenes again in the second episode of the season. This time it was Clark, and, oh-la-la! Lionel Luther! At least that one had a story element in it (Lionel getting stabbed). Maybe they're going for a trademark element, like "I have a bad feeling about this" in all the Star Wars movies....
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A few phrases I am wont to use with my one year old:

When he's screaming during a meal: "Less whine, more dine!"

When he's screaming at bedtime: "Less scream, more dream!"

When he's screaming rather than communicating: "Less squawk, more talk!"

He's a great little boy, but it'll be nice when he learns to...
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Support for the Atom format is growing, but it's certainly not as extensive as support for RSS. Because of this, it is sometimes useful to be able to convert Atom feeds to RSS. If, for example, you are using CaRP to display RSS feeds on your website, and you find an Atom feed you'd like...
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The TV is busted. Okay, it's still working, but we might be better off if it were busted. The stuff that's on it is busted. Well, that's closer to the truth. The brains of the people writing stuff to put on it are busted. Ah, the truth at last.

Smallville's season premiere had a surprise....
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"Five Nines" of up-time for a system isn't so hard to achieve as long as you don't define it as 99.999% availability. Here's a little comic to illustrate:

"Our profits are growing exponentially!" Sounds great, right? Not necessarily. Here's a little one frame comic I drew to show how exponential profit growth can actually be a bad thing

While working on the predecessor site to The Professional Network, my brother with whom I was collaborating quoted some wise person saying that "perfect is the worst enemy of good enough." In other words, once something is good enough to do the job it's designed for, the worst thing you can do is to keep...
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My brother is always coming up with Mental Arcs, though sometimes they look more like short circuits. His latest (which wasn't a short circuit) was to build a free site to help people automate their activity email lists. The idea is to use it to bring more traffic into our singles site. (BTW, both are...
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The main purpose of SPF records is to determine whether an email was really sent by who it claims to come from in order to block or tag suspect emails. This can assist mail servers in handling both spam and worms. Another problem that can be reduced using SPF is the number of messages sent...
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Sometimes, participation in the AtomPub Working Group can be awfully tedious. The discussion of some topics just seems to go on and on and on and on... While feeling the pain the other day, and started making a list of ineffective discussion methods that lead to these protracted discussions. I've augmented it with other communication...
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