Web Hall Of Shame: Wired News Hijacks Your Clipboard
It’s a given that you can’t trust the Internet. I mean, you’re connecting to random strangers’ computers, downloading code and data, running some of that co...
Vacant and Blighted Property Testimony
Councilmember Bowser and Councilmember Evans held a joint hearing yesterday on B18-546 and B18-448. Both bills are an attempt to better define who gets hit...
January 18th is Marion Barry Day
January 18th is an inauspicious day for the citizens of the District of Columbia. It marks the date of the arrest of Mayor Marion S. Barry, Jr. in a drug st...
Windows 7 Chkdsk Prompt Hangs At 1 Second: How I Fixed It
A few weeks back, something bad happened to my computer. I’m not sure what, but my nightly backup reported a failure to run due to corrupted folders. So I ...
Living 64-bit: Why Windows Thumbnails Show Up Randomly
Windows Explorer has had support for showing thumbnails instead of icons for many years now. Support is built-in for many common formats, like images or ric...
The Web Paradigm Four Years Later: King Browser
In my first post in this series, we took a quick look at where we were at the start of 2006 in re-defining the Web, and then asked, “How are we doing? Have ...
The Web Paradigm Four Years Later: Where We Started
Everything old is new again. The advent of Chromium OS, and discussions at work with David, have prompted me to dust off these old posts and revisit my posi...