Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 31st, 2006
In The End of Checklist Liberalism, Mark Schmitt points out that the traditional “interest group” politics of enviros and others aren’t working for Joe Lieberman, and he thinks it’s the harbinger of a move towards more holistic political decision making amongst the Democratic base. Lamont supporters actually aren’t ideologues. They aren’t looking for the party to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 31st, 2006
So I screwed up my courage and installed Office 2007 Beta 2 on the laptop I take home. (This is not my main work computer.)I’ve only scraped the surface with Word and Outlook, but so far, my reaction is: Wow.This is a bold upgrade that takes a big, ambitious shot at totally redoing the entire [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 30th, 2006
Apple has always had quite the reputation for designing quality hardware, but every once in a while, they really drop the ball. (Anybody remember the PowerBook 5300cs?) I finally got a hands-on look at the new MacBook today, and I was stunned, stunned. And not in a good way. A chiclet keyboard?!? What the heck were they [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 30th, 2006
TriXML2006-BeyondBlogging great basic background on RSS, RDF and ATOM protocol (tags: rss syndication presentations atom) [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 29th, 2006
I’m not usually that into OPSR (Other People’s Senate Races) but, wow, check out the New York Times’ endorsement of Ned Lamont over incumbent Joe Lieberman. If Mr. Lieberman had once stood up and taken the lead in saying that there were some places a president had no right to take his country even during a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 29th, 2006
Idealware: Creating the Relationship-Centric Organization: Nonprofit CRM good article from Paul Hagen (tags: crm nptech software databases onelist-ideas) [...]
Posted in General on Jul 29th, 2006
One of our servers here at ONE/Northwest (which, among other duties, hosts this blog!) has been acting a little flaky over the past few weeks. The SCSI disk subsystem was throwing intermittent clusters of CRC errors, which seemed to be causing the filesystem to go into read-only mode to protect itself. Which would of course [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 28th, 2006
Adaptec 39160 SCSI controller firmware install this (tags: system_administration)
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 25th, 2006
Very, very nicely done bit of viral agitprop: The dancing Condi’s are absolutely priceless. I don’t even want to get into the weird racial subtext that one could probably find. But you’re free to.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 23rd, 2006
ScatterChat encrypted, onion-routed secure instant messaging client based on the popular GAIM multi-protocol IM client. worth using just on principle. (tags: IM privacy security software collaboration) [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 23rd, 2006
95 Theses of Geek Activism. Good stuff. (Hat tip to Alex at Worldchanging.)
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 22nd, 2006
I’ve vaguely been aware for quite some time that Plone and Zope have an outstanding security record. But I didn’t quite realize how good it is until tonight. Measuring or quantifying security risks in software is pretty tough stuff. But one interesting measure I found was the number of vulnerabilities reported by the MITRE’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 20th, 2006
LCVEF Online Advocacy Report 2002 report on 30 online advocacy networks (tags: online-advocacy research) [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 19th, 2006
Google Trends: inconvenient truth (blue) vs. snakes on a plane (red) Discuss.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 19th, 2006
My colleague Steve Andersen recently penned a short article entitled “Some Observations on Nonprofit Software” that lays out a few of the core assumptions we hold about how software tools for the nonprofit sector can and should play nice together. The core of the argument goes like this: Missions are serviced only by [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 18th, 2006
AppExchange Cleans House for Chicago Housing Agency nice case study of custom web database development with Salesforce (tags: salesforce nptech databases case-studies) [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 17th, 2006
ZoneEdit.com free DNS hosting service - up to 5 domains (tags: services hosting DNS)
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 16th, 2006
are doomed to reinvent it. Poorly.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 16th, 2006
nLite - Deployment Tool for Unattended Windows looks like a really handy tool for creating custom windows install CDs (tags: utilities windows)
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 15th, 2006
Transparency Grants | Sunlight Foundation making small grants to improve transparency of Congress. Zephyr Teachout is the director. (tags: research politics funding) [...]
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