Theodicius

Good. Evil. Bratwurst.

CMS, part II

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 1:28 pm

OK, so you already know I’m not extremely happy with the state of the CMS arena currently, and I promised you an update. Andrew Eddie of the Mambo team and I have been exchanging some emails, each of us educating the other. I find that part of my previous rant was being addressed almost as […]

Hickory Dickory Death

Filed under: Books,General— arlen@ 9:26 am

The next stop on my journey through Dame Agatha’s land was Hickory Dickory Death. Another of the “nursery rhyme” mysteries, this one is not one of her best. Oh, its a good puzzle (when does she not make one?) but in this book her palming of the critical clues is not quite up to her […]

A Spy For The Redeemer

Filed under: Books,General— arlen@ 5:38 pm

This entry from Candace Robb’s series about the medieval one-eyed Captain, Owen Archer, is a bit of a departure from previous entries. When the series started, Owen began to serve the Archbishop of York, and he used his brain and his experience to solve murders. As the series went on, the deductive skills were emphasized […]

Gas-powered computing

Filed under: General,Technology— arlen@ 8:25 am

Sounds like an old joke, but you gotta see this: a Technology Review article about using micro jet engines to generate the electricity needed to run a portable device. Claims 10 hours of power generation off a diesel fuel pack the size of a D-cell. I don’t know, but it just seems so wrong to […]

Content, Content, who’s got the content?

Filed under: General,Web Design— arlen@ 9:23 pm

A while ago Jeff Veen posted a rant about open sourced Content Management Systems. It took a while to get around to finding it (OK, so I was a little busy over the past weeks, sue me) but it resonated enough with my own experiences from playing around with several that I felt compelled to […]

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