I don’t like to do obits; newspapers and magazines do them better. But I’d be remiss in not noting the passing of James Brown. He was not humble, but he always tried to live up to his own self-image. I think that excuses him.
Goodbye, James Brown. You will be missed. But you “will [...] Read more »

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I sat down today to write on this topic, then remembered that
I wrote about it nearly two [three!] years ago. Topics of religious tolerance have been very much on my mind recently. In part because of the uproar over Richard Dawkins, but probably more because
we’re having a baby. And people seemed to really [...] Read more »

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It’ll take some time to make the shift, but I will shortly be closing down my jhwwebsmith.com site. And although I have rarely accepted freelance contracts anyway, I will not be seeking or accepting any more freelance web development projects.
I have determined I have the wrong temperament.
Instead I will be focusing my extracurricular work activities [...] Read more »

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I have about six dozen projects in the works right now, and I just came up with another one. I am casting it to the Internet winds in the hopes someone else will do it.
I would like to have a tool — a Firefox plugin, preferably — that highlights words in a text box based [...] Read more »

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A number of weblogs have pointed out Gutmann’s
analysis of Windows Vista’s content protection scheme, generally quoting his “Executive Executive Summary”:

The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history.

I knew Vista was bad. But the problem with that Executive Executive Summary is that it sound hyperbolic. In other words, [...] Read more »

Posted in What The...?!? 6 Comments »