DISQUS

I thought this line sounded odd:

Other states, like Texas, that aren’t bankrupt and aren’t laying off teachers

Pretty much every state is having budgets problems, with California having the largest problem (not surprising given it's the most populous, housing bubble, etc). But the phrase that Texas wasn't laying off teachers didn't ring true to me. Sure enough, a quick Google search turned up:

Texas, October 2008 - district lays off 375 teachers (this was a math mistake, but still. Teachers, math mistake in budget, not a ringing endorsement)
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/17/dallas.schools...

Texas, March 2009 - district closes a middle school and lays off more teachers
http://www.kwtx.com/news/headlines/41395207.html

Texas, March 2009 - district discussing what to do about $1 million budget deficit
http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/l...

To be fair, I live in Utah and we're having to deal with our own budget shortfalls as well. But to claim that Texas has been able to avoid lay offs or budget deficits in schools is not true.

They can’t accept the facts, so they make up reasons like dirty tricks, or cheating, the complicit media

What I find funny is that people feel like there's only one side that feels that way, or see's things that way.

Congratulations!

I've suggested to Flickr that they pass the tags that are on the photo to WordPress. Not sure if it will happen, but at least one person over there has been told about it :-)

Suggesting that Facebook is a model of privacy is a stretch at best. Those are the same folks that brought us beacon.

FYI, there are no known exploits in the XML-RPC code.

The search feature it now live:

http://wordpress.com/blog/2008/04/14/search-wor...

I use the Mail.app on Mac OS X.

Hi There!

Most email clients will allow you to automatically BCC yourself on each email you send out. If you did that then sent email would go into your archive and be forwarded.

I set my Gmail account for forward all email to another imap account and keep a copy on Gmail in the archive. This is an easy way to keep a backup of every email I get.

I've written a Facebook application, although I'm recent to the Utah part :-)

The WordPress app in Facebook is in an iframe. At no point does Facebook ever get your WordPress.com username and password.

If you login at wordpress.com and then go to the app you'll skip the app login page entirely.

Mujibur is right though, Steve Jobs points out that music companies are selling tons of CDs without DRM. So why shouldn't they sell music online without DRM? The same flow of logic doesn't work for DVDs.

Also, the comment about Steve needing his $0.99 a song is rather lame. Most reports on the estimated portion that Apple actually gets out of that $0.99 is pretty small.

I'm curious where you got this:

Battery is only two hours ... (if you play video)

The iPhone specs indicate something completely different:

Battery: Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing

Granted that may not be the best battery life around, but it way above your two hours number.

ashowforgeeks.com

Duh :-)

Geek dinner in Sacramento?

Nice use of the selective quoting. What you failed to note was that out of the additional 4.5 million new IIS sites 1.6 million were parked domains at Go Daddy doing nothing. This reduces the increase to 2.9 million (still a large number, but about 35% smaller). Then you add it the 6 hosting services that switched by 40k or more chips away by at least another 240k. This makes the new number around 2.6 million.

So the approximate increase due to blogs (Germany in Japan hosting services mentioned in the article) is around 1.9 million. This is still a big number, but is less than 45% of the 4.5 million increase for this month.

Reading your post you'd get the idea that virtually all of IIS increase in June was due to blogs. Netcraft indicated that less than 45% of the increase was due to blogs.

I'm not disagreeing with the idea that the number of blogs will continue to grow and will have a huge impact on the Netcraft reports. I am disagreeing with the tone of your post that makes it sound like blogs were the only reason of the increase.

The PostgreSQL date functions are really nice (I wish other database programs had them). And I can certainly see the value of being able to provide this right in the database so that any client can make use of it. Looking at this got me to thinking, there might be an even easier way to do this. The code below seems to provide the same result. It would be easy enough to create a sql function to make it even easier.


SELECT (
(extract(year FROM age('1996-02-01'::timestamp)) * 12)
+
extract(month FROM age('1996-02-01'::timestamp))
) AS months_ago



Now what would be really cool is be able to work with the interval itself. In looking over the TODO list at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html this may be possible in the future. Check out the functions section. This these additional features in place the above code could be as simple as:


SELECT (
to_char(age('1996-02-01'::timestamp), 'MM')
)


Now that would be neat!

This might be something best left code outside of the database, like PHP. Here's a time_since() function in PHP that does this for you:

http://blog.natbat.co.uk/archive/2003/Jun/14/time_since

The idea is nice, but it doesn't seem to reflect what we've actually seen from Microsoft. Even when MS does respond to the community it can often take years before anything is done. I'm sure several people will point out IE. How many years have people been begging for things to be fixed and updated? And we still only in beta for IE7.

Another example is PDF support in MS Office (which you pointed out). After reading through the details about that, it turns out the community had been requesting this for years:

http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/archives/2005/10/02/ms-office-12-to-support-pdf/

The track record for MS listening to others doesn't leave most people with much hope.

There are plenty of alternatives to Pingomatic. I recently announced another alternative to Pingomatic called PINGQueue. It offers a similar service, with the ability to look at your ping history and responses from services to your ping.