Miscellaneous – Page 5

Twitter “Verified” Account… Not So Much.

September 13, 2015

Update Nov 2015: Many thanks to Twitter engineer Eitan Adler for grabbing this one by the horns and steering it

July 9, 2015

I’ve run across yet another reference to President Obama’s supposedly Muslim father, this time in a magazine that I subscribe

February 11, 2015

Update 2015-02-12, ~12 p.m. CT: Eric Schultz just told me that the OccupyGPL site has suddenly started redirecting to choosealicense.com, within

January 15, 2015

I gave my friend Noel Taylor (yes, the noted William Howard Taft scholar) a book as a New Year’s gift.

January 8, 2015

An interesting bill was just introduced in the New York State Senate: open.nysenate.gov/legislation/bill/S161-2015 AN ACT to amend the tax law,

December 5, 2014

How hard is open source winning? So hard that apparently it can be taken for granted now in contexts where

November 12, 2014

This is a public service announcement for anyone else who runs WordPress straight from SVN trunk and found their site

October 11, 2014

This post is a public service announcement for all those using GNOME 3.14 or higher (in my case on Debian

September 9, 2014

This post is for people who install Debian GNU/Linux and run into this error at the GRUB installation step: Executing

August 17, 2014

I don’t usually write a blog post just to say “go read this other person’s blog post”, but some cases