Confluence WebDAV with Windows 7 and Vista

Doesn’t work. Stop trying. Give up. Sure it works in XP. And the web will lead you on a lot of wild goose chases but basically, the problem is windows vista (and windows 7) don’t really support webdav. They say they do, but it is buggy, and there are a…

The <! — Session Data → in my content bug — Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, etc..

Humbling comparison — Behold your puny planet and tiny star and despair! (video)

Things like this really challenge the imagination.

Buying a SSD to improve laptop performance — speed vs size vs everything else

I’m in the market for performance enhancers. Not the kind that get Olympic champions disqualified. The kind that will squeeze 10–20% faster speed out my laptop. Since I spend 8–10 hours a day with…

The making of a road-trip mix tape…or how I hurt my plinky

Ok look, here’s the deal. I saw a new service on the web and decided to try it. The gimick of “plinky.com” is they ask you a question and you answer it. At first I dreaded the question, then rolled my eyes, 3 “road trip songs”…

A primer to communication — 1953 film

The basics of communication presented in this 1953 introduction to “the era of communication” (aka the information age) are still true in 2003. Transmission, noise, redundancy, distortion… misunderstanding. Charles and Ray Eames were husband and wife, not…

How information moves in today’s society

I made a graphic that shows how I think information moves through our society today. At the top is the discovery, on its way to becoming common knowledge at the bottom it has to move through several phases. Each phase is an ecological niche that is occupied…

What is the meaning of “semantic web”?

We all know that computers are stupid. They can’t tell the difference between “turning right” and “being right”, or “this object is light” and “turn on the light”. They just search for the word and if it appears, they show you where it is. They have no idea what…