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New Apple notebooks due out later today. For sure the Pro, and maybe the regular MacBook too. I really need to upgrade, although my super old 867 Mhz Titanium PowerBook continues to work flawlessly despite the incredible amount of use it has seen. Just an amazing product. But software continues to require more and more power, and this means it has gotten - relatively - slower and slower over time.
One interesting note on the new machines - Displayport connectors. You out there Mark? Any advantages here?
Video of a talk Brian Cox gave at TED on the Large Hadron Collider. Fairly understandable given the subject matter.
Funny (because it's true) article about problems with CSS. I agree with all 10 points, but this afterthought really hits home for me:
Oh and while I'm complaining, can someone make an HTML form file upload capability that doesn't look like it escaped from a Borland Turbo Jaquard Loom application circa 1645?
Wow, those MySQL indexes really work</understatement">
Not sure what I'm going to use it for, but I was surprised to find the domain frictionlessplane.com available so I bought it. Does that phrase have meaning to people, or is it just me? Of all the stupid domains I've bought and then never used (well, okay, not that many) I'm most excited about this one. Now to just find a use.
I've been immersed in pChart - a PHP Class to build charts - for the whole day. Wow, what a package. Very powerful and very well made with great documentation. What's not to like? I made a surprising amount of progress and I now have the traffic logging part of geneva almost done. This was the last big piece (have you heard that before?) Anyway, this is making me quite happy because it was a real struggle to figure out a way to do this that wouldn't completely kill the server once a site had a ton of historical data. But I think I have it worked out. And then with pChart on the front end I can actually output some great looking line charts rather than just a boring table of numbers. I think this is going to be very important. Site owners want to see their traffic stats!
Google launches a browser: Chrome. Somewhat strangely there is a comic to go along with the launch that explains what it's all about. It's based on Webkit which is the open source project behind Safari. In short: yet another browser isn't that interesting, but this isn't that. More thoughts when I collect them.
Wine Disorder launches. This is the first bulletin board running on Geneva. Funny bunch of guys - their FAQ is really good I think.
I'm seeing lots of weirdness in the server logs connected to this sql injection attack. Not sure what to make of it. Don't think it can be doing anything to my servers. Maybe it's just the result of other sites having been hacked. In any case, I'm getting requests with this query string tacked on the end:
';DECLARE%20@S%20CHAR(4000);SET%20@S=CAST(0x4445434C41524520 [...snip...] C655F437572736F72%20AS%20CHAR(4000));EXEC(@S);