http://squeg.com/home Oscillating in random intervals. Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:13:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’ve been looking for an excuse to give a closer look to punBB for some time now. Yesterday, when I learned that ezboard glitches had killed a small message board I visit regularly, I lept into action. I’ve been forwards and backwards through the software now, and read pretty much ... http://squeg.com/home/archives/06-2005/punbb-to-save-the-day/ Software developer/blogger, Angusman has updated his hack to the Wordpress dashboard page. His new version streamlines Wordpress’ functionality, while removing some of the extra stuff that clogs that page by default. I love his new design, but I actually found I missed the news items that used to ... http://squeg.com/home/archives/04-2005/wordpress-dashboard-hack/ Thanks to Scott over at Thought Mechanics for pointing out this interview with Thomas Friedman at Grist Magazine. I don’t plan on becoming some kind of “link blogger” here putting up link after link to other people’s stuff. But Friedman’s ideas are interesting. I liken his “geo-green” solutions to ... http://squeg.com/home/archives/04-2005/geo-green/ Software developers need to learn that some things should be truly random and others should only be “mostly” random. I love the “random shuffle” feature in Musicmatch that will pick songs randomly from my playlist. But I’d sure love it more if it could remember not to pick anything that ... http://squeg.com/home/archives/03-2005/when-random-shouldnt-be/ Apparently, my office internet connection is sitting right behind the very last DNS server in world. Changes I made yesterday morning, finally just took effect sometime mid-morning today. Everyone updates before our server, and I mean everyone. I believe our server finally got it’s information from a ... http://squeg.com/home/archives/03-2005/the-last-dns-server-in-the-world/ What makes a great host for a webserver? Apparently not the same things that make a great doman registrar. I’ve been using godaddy.com for several years to register my domain names (both private and business) and to host my email account. They’ve done a fantastic job and ... http://squeg.com/home/archives/03-2005/server-swap/ Okay then. So there’ s nothing here to see, yet. But things are beginning to roll along nicely. There are a number of things in store for squeg.com. Most of them, however, will be utterly boring if you don’t know me. However, if you do ... http://squeg.com/home/archives/02-2005/getting-underway/