Scripting News

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:31:21 GMT

1967: "United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting."

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:47:06 GMT

The full article in PDF form.

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:56:37 GMT

Good/bad news -- this weblog crossed a bandwidth threshold in the last few weeks, it's now serving more than 10 megabits per second, which happened to be the limit of the server it's running on. Access gets flaky as it bounces off the limit, and for the last couple of hours its been pegged at the limit, making it largely inaccessible. I just upgraded the server, if you can read this it means we're back on the air. Later tonight I'm going to move things around again to make better usage of the servers, so there's sure to be another outage or two. Dig we must!

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:12:12 GMT

Two SJ Merc articles on podcasting. Password protected but cypherpunk-cypherpunk works.

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:14:34 GMT

Wellesley College breaks ground, offering free blogs to all alumni. Harvard did this first, but doesn't make such a big deal about it.

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:00:44 GMT

TiVO releases a developer kit. Too late?

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:18:15 GMT

New header graphic.

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:47:17 GMT

Scoble's FAQ on rel="nofollow".

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:49:20 GMT

Dan Bricklin understands the role guilt plays in software. "Instead of making you feel bad for 'only' doing 99%, a well designed system makes you feel good for doing 1%."

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:36:40 GMT

MSN product manager: "If I want to meet with a products manager for Windows there needs to be three lawyers in the room."