I recently offered to pre-screen O’Reilly’s first graphic novel, “Hackerteen: Volume 1: Internet Blackout,” under the caveat that I’d post a review afterwards.
Quick review: I wish I hadn’t committed to write this review. I find Internet Blackout to be offensive to those who enjoy comics, the Internet, and learning.
Full review: I’m a fan of [...]

The “animal cracker” is an often misunderstood delight, deserving of detail and defense in an era of mislabeling and generalizations.
According to Wikipedia’s definition of “animal cracker,” they are “crackers in the shapes of animals… They are like crackers due to the way they are made, with layered dough, however the use of sweetened dough gives [...]

MyBlogLog has been on a tear lately, releasing FOAF support, XFN support, and verification of sites.
Most interesting to me, however, has been their quiet rollout of MicroID support last week. ClaimID quickly posted, Fred Stutzman followed suit, and the MicroID blog alerted folks as well.
MicroID, for the uninitiated, is a snippet of code (which [...]

My good colleague Max recently released his Yahoo! Media Player Wordpress plugin. This add-on uses the Yahoo! Media Player, recently released on the Developer Network, to automatically create an embedded MP3/audio player for every link to an audio file you have in your posts (or every file linked from an XSPF playlist).
Additionally, Max’s plugin makes [...]

I’ve had a recurring problem for years in Mac OS X.
Whenever I need to do a backup, I find myself repeating a pattern. I select a series of files and folders, and then check their total file size via the Finder’s Inspector palette (Cmd-Option-I) to see how close that is to the CD/DVD disc’s available [...]