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NYT: Colleges Are Not Going Hungry, How to ask for money for your alma mater. (tags: uva)

It’s time for the Thanksgiving menu, and not a moment too soon. I managed to get to Wilson Farms today in the nick of time to pick up my turkey, came home early, and boiled my customary Alton Brown brine (1 gallon vegetable broth, a cup of salt, a half-cup mixed brown and white sugar [...]

BlackBerry Storm Downgraded to a Depression (NYTimes.com) Oh, there’s no end to the possible puns. My favorite is at the end: “Storm isn’t such a bad name for this phone. It’s dark, sodden, and unpredictable.” (tags: iphone blackberry schadenfreude) The Criterion Collection The Criterion Collection folks are now doing online streaming. And their commenting features [...]

WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.6.5 New WordPress version, doesn’t fix the CSRF issue reported earlier but recommended anyway. A quick upgrade if you look at the changeset. (tags: wordpress security) Cisco to close shop for 4 days to save money | Business Tech – CNET News OK, now this is starting to get scary. [...]

I hope I have the time to come back to this thought tomorrow (along with some overdue Thanksgiving blogging). But I had the opportunity to meet up with an old colleague for lunch today and to discuss, among other things, two different agile project cycles. One project cycle ships every four to five months, has [...]

Mr. Biden Goes to Washington – NYTimes.com Great profile of the Bidens as they prepare to move to Washington, for the first time ever. (tags: biden) Economist’s View: The Citigroup Bailout This couldn’t be more absurd if we tried. Time to get Bush’s team out of there and get Obama’s team in, before they give [...]

I installed version 2 of Taglocity on Friday. As I wrote a while ago, the older version of Taglocity has saved my bacon many times, and I was excited about the new features. I still am, but I’m a little more cautious about the new version today. Why? Migration. I installed the new version in [...]

iPhone update kills 12 security bugs | Zero Day | ZDNet.com The motivation for doing the iPhone 2.2 upgrade. (tags: iphone security) A ‘where’s the feature?’ report: iPhone 3G | Speeds and feeds – CNET News Interesting wishlist for iPhone features. (tags: iphone productmanagement) IPhone: iPhone 2.2 Firmware Update Now Available Guess I know what [...]

8 CSS Techniques for Charting Data – Six Revisions Nice roundup of using CSS for charts and graphs for image-free, accessible data. (tags: css) Reinforce your product-related communication : How To Be A Good Product Manager: Product management tips Man, I’ve made this error so many times it’s not even funny. (tags: productmanagement) Young’uns get [...]

I thought I had linked to Urban Giraffe’s great Redirection WordPress plug-in, but there was a glitch between Ubiquity and Delicious and the link didn’t get saved. Ah well. The point is that Redirection makes it dead simple to do two things: track 404s (dead links) that users hit on your site, and create redirects [...]

Joho the Blog » Tech community party in Boston Sounds like a good party. (tags: boston cambridge harvard berkman party) YouTube: And Now For Something Completely Different on YouTube Just what I needed, another way to waste time on the Internet. (tags: humor montypython youtube) macosxhints.com – Create arbitrary keyboard shortcuts for bookmarklets Interesting way [...]

I had read about NASA’s use of Snoopy and the Peanuts characters as unofficial mascots for Apollo 10 (it was well documented in Charlie Brown and Charlie Schulz, which sat on my Pop-Pop’s bookshelf alongside the Peanuts Treasury), but don’t remember seeing this. Courtesy Google Image Search and the LIFE archives: As good an argument [...]

No link, because I’m posting this from my iPhone. But it looks like WordPress 2.6.3, the latest version, has a cross site request forgery vulnerability. The way CSRF works, if you have your WP site open and are logged in, an attacker can use another web page that’s open at the same time to perform [...]

StickySorter: A Tool for Organizing Information – Office Labs Pretty awesome tool for doing affinity maps. Look forward to trying it out. (tags: productmanagement marketing microsoft) Topspin » GRAMMY Northwest MusicTech Summit Keynote An inspiring presentation about the state of the music business. No, not for the labels: for the artists and fans. (tags: music) [...]

I’m impressed by the new LIFE photo archive at Google Images–it’s a truly significant work of digital content. But it’s missing one important thing: a usage policy. The images are marked (c) Time Inc., so it’s clear they aren’t public domain. But is there any way to purchase usage rights? The only reuse provision seems [...]