O’Reilly now has DRM free versions of some of its book available for the Kindle. Among the books are my own Painting the Web, Learning JavaScript, second edition, Practical RDF, and Adding Ajax. O’Reilly has been offering DRM free versions of the books at the O’Reilly site, but it’s only been lately that authors have been able to provide DRM […]
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Beauty is in the eye
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Boing Boing re-published a photo found on Flickr of a hairless male chimp at the Mysore Zoo in India. Chances are this chimp suffered from the same hereditary disease that Cinder, the chimp who recently died at the St. Louis zoo, did: alopecia universalis. The condition is rare among chimps, so I’m not surprised that […]
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Drupal and PHP Safe Mode
I had asked about a new hosting company on Twitter. My main interest was cutting costs, but I’m also having problems with my current hosting company. Frankly, I think the problem is all of the Ruby-on-Rails applications running—database access almost comes to a standstill at times. Regardless, the company also turned on PHP safe mode, […]
One of my books finally returns home. (via David Wood)
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The car: epilogue
I took my car into the shop last Monday, telling them to keep the car until they discovered the problem. Unlike the last time I took the car in, they could see the charging light, as well as hear the chattering relay (thanks, Dave). They had a hard time hunting down the problem, though. Three […]