Posts Tagged ‘ Politics ’

PhishTank Looks Neat

I caught wind of this neat little project called PhishTank from a blog post by the OpenDNS guys. It’s a site based around the concept of using a community of users to create a database of phishing sites as they are encountered. Think of it like a Digg for interent fraud. The neat thing is [ READ MORE ]

Thinking About Lectures

In thinking about the Digital Government lecture series, I figure I need to get my thoughts together about the last two talks. The one two weeks ago was given by three major players in the WA state IT arena. I thought that the format was a little bit iffy given the ease with which the [ READ MORE ]

Brit Sheker

In looking over the official website of Brit Tzedek v’Shalom, I have come to a conclusion: This organization is misleading. This may seem harsh at first. Let’s break it down. A Google search for the word “Israel” on the BTVS website yields “about 15,100” results. A Google search for the word “Palestinian” yields “about 12,700” [ READ MORE ]

SourceForge.net Awards

It’s that time, the SourceForge.net awards are open for voting. This isn’t just the popularity contest though. The winner, in addition to fame and recognition, gets a little placard! Vote before the 23 of March by going to the awards page on [ READ MORE ]

Autopackage Takes A Beating

As pointed out by my friend grifferz, it seems that Autopackage has been taking a beating on Planet Debian recently. I sort of like Autopackage as an application but I often have trouble with some of their attitudes. I agree wholehartedly with what Jeff Licquia, Eric Schubert and Daniel Stone have to say on the [ READ MORE ]

Keep On Crunching With SETI@home!

Not like anyone needed more reason to donate their unused computer time to the SETI@home project, but this Yahoo! news story (via Slashdot) tells that astronomers have releases a list of the top 10 star systems most likely to contain Earth-like planets. It also talk about the recent 15 percent finding cut issued by President [ READ MORE ]

The Vice President of the USA Just Shot Someone In The Face

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Ubuntu Security Notice Monitor theme for Superkaramba

In conjunction with my fantastic Czech designer Ricardo, I have created a Superkaramba theme that will display the 10 latest Ubuntu Security Notice report titles in a widget on your desktop. I think it’s rather cool. Grab a copy at kde-look.org[ READ MORE ]

More Superkaramba and Seti@Home at TESC

In coding and doing other assorted tasks, I have updated my kernel version monitor theme for Superkaramba. It now parses the kernel.org RSS feed instead of the kernel.org finger banner using the Orchard Data Manipulation Framework. It’s up to v.0.4 and has several enhancements over the original release mentioned such as being completely Python powered [ READ MORE ]

Python vs. PHP: Why Bother?

In my most recent travels, I have come accross a whole slew of different things. I began looking at Ajax related things and discovered some very cool stuff. I stumbled upon Python Server Pages through this nifty ONLamp.com tutorial. It is a Python clone of JavaServer Pages thanks to the facilities offered by mod_python. While [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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