Standards wars

Joel explaining how difficult it is to set and keep standards in play: Postel´s robustness principle is spot on: "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others." How does this apply to dish washers, which I find have the...

The myth of non-correlation

Interesting thought: markets are tightly correlated (due to the complexity of product relationships and the tight coupling due to the mechanised processes) meaning that the hedges people are taking out to protect themselves from the worst may well go wrong.

Woman in bathroom for two years

Just an extraordinary story, especially the piece where the toilet seat had to go with her to hospital. I only read the story because it was in Wichita, and Caroline has been there.

LDAP, PHP and CPanel

Finally got LDAP working with a PHP front end. 1) Install all the OpenLDAP packages in WHM->Software->Install a RPM (openldap, clients, devel, servers)2) Put a custom build configure flag in the all_php5 file as shown here (NB for me the command...

What´s underneath the change in benefits

Interesting summary of the benefits changes announced this week: Neither party can claim originality (the ideas came from the US) and both have supported them The move from spending AME on DEL targets is a big one – it suggests that the government wants to cut...