Archive for January, 2006

The always interesting PostSecret

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

I always enjoy reading postsecret on Sunday's. This one was particularly amusing, I wonder if it is a prophetic postcard. Not for myself, but for someone else I know who is getting married. Marriage isn't something to be taken lightly, however these days you can just get an annulment. If not ...

Buddhism vs Objectivism

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

I had been wondering about how Buddhism compares to Objectivism. It would seem on the surface that they have quite conflicting beliefs. In my searches I stumbled across this article, which makes some interesting comparisons on the similarities: Buddhism seems to have several general similarities with Objectivism. It is about making ...

AJAX (web 2.0) updates

Friday, January 20th, 2006

I've been looking into additional AJAX related resources and stumbled across an interesting wiki dealing with Ruby on Rails. The site has some interesting demo links. The actual wiki is part of the script.aculo.us website which aims to be: easy-to-use, compatible and, ultimately, ...

SmoothWall Firewall

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

Smoothwall is now a member of my home network, in fact, it's now the first line of defense. I installed the SmoothWall Express 2.0 over the last week onto a machine I was using to serve music. I used the open source version of the software which has ...