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The Patriot Act as a sign of failure It's interesting to see how the inability of our security bureaucracy to defend us from a threat is being blamed on a legal structure that protects our citizens. Legal rules and rights were never the problem. The inability of the bureaucracy to do anything meaningful with the… Continue reading The Patriot Act as a sign of failure

Google Taunts Skype, Releases GTalk API. Google has just released a set of components called Libjingle that allow third party applications to interact with Google Talk. The components, which include some source code, are being released under a very liberal license allowing for free incorporation into commercial and non-commercial software. We are releasing this source… Continue reading Google Taunts Skype, Releases GTalk API

Rice on MTP Based on the non-response of Rice to Tim Russert on the question of what authority the US President based his decision to wire tap Americans, it seems to me that the President violated the law. Expediency is not an excuse or a basis for authority to violate the constitution. [John Robb's Weblog]

Massachusetts Governor Won't Seek Second Term. The announcement from Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, is widely interpreted to mean that he will run for president in 2008. By PAM BELLUCK. [NYT > Home Page]

Squib becomes real. I've started quite a lot of development projects in my time and many (most?) of them never made it very far. When I set out to replace Radio as my blogging tool I knew, at the back of my mind, there was a chance this would be one of those projects. So… Continue reading release of Squib 0.3.0

A conversation with Salesforce.com co-founder Parker Harris. I had lunch this week with Parker Harris, nominally the executive vice president, Technology, at Salesforce.com, but more importantly the co-founder of Salesforce.com. Our discussion ranged from executives at Salesforce once considering a name change to Workforce.com to two of the company's latest technologies, AppExchange and Sandbox. As… Continue reading A conversation with Salesforce.com co-founder Parker Harris

SEO for bloggers. Nick Wilson, over at performancing.com has a nice interview with “senior Google engineer and webmaster relations chappy Matt Cutts” that sheds some light on SEO as it relates to blogging. I think everyone should sit down with Google's webmaster guidelines and just read it all. It will only take a couple hours,… Continue reading SEO for bloggers

Rails 1.0: Party like it's one oh oh!. 15 months after the first public release, Rails has arrived at the big 1.0. What a journey! We’ve gone through thousands of revisions, tickets, and patches from hundreds of contributors to get here. I’m incredibly proud at the core committer team, the community, and the ecosystem we’ve… Continue reading Rails 1.0: Party like it's one oh oh!

Ruby on Rails 1.0 is live (with a new site too). Hey hey! Ruby on Rails is 1.0. We sprinkled a little 37signals dust on the new site to help make the announcement. A ton of really hard work went into getting 1.0 — and the site — ready. Big ups to the Rails Core… Continue reading Ruby on Rails 1.0 is live (with a new site too)

Wanna see how easy it is to compromise an unpatched Windows Server?. Whoppix has done it again. As recorded by the attacker, have a look at how easy it is to compromise a Windows 2000 server with an unpatched IIS5 implementation. Before you go and say “but Windows Server and IIS6 are out”, remember that… Continue reading Wanna see how easy it is to compromise an unpatched Windows Server?