Nerdlife

Update: Schrep (I’m far back right, he’s in the middle…note the ripped shirt, sorry Schrep!) was kind enough to point out that, as of bug 423377 being resolved, Firefox 3 defaults to 6 simultaneous connections.  Modern browsers all use different numbers, the lowest being IE 7 with 2 (all older browsers also use 2).
One of [...]

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I try not to make posts primarily links to articles, but this article about the truth behind America’s “everybody should go to college” mentality is both enveloping and thought-provoking (the author definitely proves his qualifications as a teacher).
Personally, I’m a little split on the subject, though I lean slightly in the direction of the author. [...]

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I’m just wrapping up a relatively large project centering around a Wordpress plugin.  I’ve gotten a chance to explore the API in depth, and have discovered a lot of nice things and a lot of not-so-nice things.  One of the not-so-nice things was the way plugin activation is handled…it is assumed that, assuming no fatal [...]

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Just got my ticket for f8 2008, I’ll be in San Francisco July 23rd, I’m sure I’ll have some interesting notes to share .

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Today I ran into an interesting response to Paul’s post on those who dislike the awesome bar (which I decided not to link to).  The post pulls the following quote from the end of Paul’s well thought-out and harmless article:
So just give it a shot and quit complaining. Yes, it is a complete paradigm shift. [...]

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