Category: Science & Technology

I’ve been using Safari Tidy for a few days now, and recommend it highly. The author says:

The Safari Tidy plugin is a small plugin that lets you validate the webpages you browse for (x)html compliance. The actual validation is done by Tidy. This plugin was modeled after a similar plugin for Firefox, which can be found here.

Download Safari Tidy here

I’m finding it especially handy for WordPress, both for my own markos, and for cases where WordPress’s automatic markup conflicts with my own. I assume that the Firefox version would be just as useful.

Intel’s CEO is fed up with Windows.

Pressed about security by Mr. Mossberg, Mr. Otellini had a startling confession: He spends an hour a weekend removing spyware from his daughter’s computer. And when further pressed about whether a mainstream computer user in search of immediate safety from security woes ought to buy Apple Computer Inc.’s Macintosh instead of a Wintel PC, he said, “If you want to fix it tomorrow, maybe you should buy something else.”

Meanwhile, Winn Schwartau, security columnist for Network World, is “Mad as hell, switching to Mac”.

This is my first column written on a Mac – ever. Maybe I should have done it a long time ago, but I never said I was smart, just obstinate. I was a PC bigot.

But now, I’ve had it. I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.

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We have successfully moved to Mac in less than two days. Think about it: a security-friendly alternative that works and doesn’t require gobs of third-party utilities to safely perform the most mundane tasks.

I’ve been playing with assorted weblog software, including iBlog and assorted flavors of Blosxom. I’m not really thrilled with any of them, but so far WordPress looks promising.

WordPress is implemented in PHP, and uses MySQL as its back end. Initial configuration was simple, assuming that one has straightforward access to the required PHP and MySQL facilities.