If your gallery 2 install is occasionally getting hammered by search engine bots, the culprit is very likely gallery’s slideshow- search engine bots seem to get trapped in it, and hammer it badly- sapping both bandwidth and CPU (since it hits mysql a lot.)
To deal with it, either disable the slideshow module via the control [...]
When I posted about my summer internship, I forgot to call out the one person most responsible for it happening- Chris Blizzard. Chris started talking RH up at GUADEC, saying ‘I have no idea if we have internships for lawyers, but if we do, you should come work for us.’ And he kept pushing it, [...]
Unlike some people, I appear not to have been swank enough to score an N800. This probably indicates good judgment on Nokia’s part, given how little I’ve been able to contribute with my 770. :/ The really unfortunate part, in my mind, is that I’m not that disapppointed. I love my 770, but the complete [...]
[Edited to clarify who was saying what, and a postscript added to further clarify my position re: developer mindshare.]
Silicon Valley Sleuth said Thursday:
“Red Hat may not be perfect, but the vendor has by far the most developer mind share within the open source community.”
James Governor replied Friday (in his del.icio.us links, which he should make [...]
Am currently attending a talk on the DMCA 1201 rulemaking. I’ve become just too cynical a bastard to really attend these things; the first speaker here is a shill for the content industry (albeit a very bright shill), and I’m having a hard time not laughing out loud at some of his claims. (He’s riffing [...]
Am still practically in food coma from Krissa’s butternut squash and brown rice risotto:
I am very, very spoiled.
Easy, easy totally delicious snack: wheat thins, small chunk of cheese, dab of the plum chutney from Beth’s Farm Kitchen. Hint for classmates: you should be able to find Beth’s selling their delicious wares at the Broadway and 114th farmer’s market on Thursday and Saturdays. Everyone else: the magics of the intarwebs can get this [...]
I haven’t had a chance to read the whole thing yet, but those who were interested in my past post on intrinsic motivation might be interested in this study on the psychology of money, from Science late last year. Apparently even the mere mention of money can make people less helpful- “Reminders of money, relative [...]
A nice refresher, from the Sunday NYT no less, about how iTunes and DRM hurts perfectly innocent customers, fails to stop piracy, and reduces competition. Bonus stat: emusic implies every music label except the big four now allows at least some distribution of tunes without DRM.
Matt Asay says some very kind words about how people should hire me, and mentions that I have a summer job lined up. I’ll announce the details once HR has gotten me signed on the dotted line, but suffice to say I’m very excited.
William Patry (maybe the most learned copyright lawyer on the planet, author [...]
