The story has finally made it onto big media, both National and International– CNN (by way of Popular Science), Google News, The Wall Street Journal, PortalIT, Wired, Washington Monthly, and many more sources are now questioning the advisability of messing with the current status quo which is Net Neutrality.
Other Celebs and large Corporations have [...]

Though I’m glad that the committee passed the Bill for Strict Network Neutrality, which will now be put up for a vote in both the house and the senate, it worries me that this whole issue has become nothing but another Congressional Turf War. The stakes? Whether the FCC or the Judiciary Committee oversees Network [...]

We all know that O’Reilly of tech books fame is the one who first used the term “Web 2.0″ to describe the way the web has matured and how interactivity between a website and its audience is the future of the web. The term, as a GENERIC term to describe the phenomena, has been used [...]

The waters on this whole issue are getting VERY muddy. Network Neutrality, which, according to Wikipedia, is synonymous with common carrier status for providers of the pipe to the network and, having received valuable public right of way should not be allowed to be privately owned without open access so that owners could provide services [...]

This is obviously a screenshot of WordPress Support on “lunch break”. Now, understand something. This is a MAJOR support site, upon which I depend for at least a portion of my livelihood. Now, if this was an isolated incident I probably wouldn’t blog it, but this type of crap, whether it be server timeouts, [...]

I’ve been wondering when something like this would come down the pike, and now it has. This is a landmark case, and one that Target, whether it wins or loses in court, or settles out of court, has already lost in the realm of Public Opinion if they don’t do something about their website SOON. [...]

I just installed the security update for ModX (0.9.2.1) on one of my installations. I’ve got to say, the devs at ModX are slick-slick-slick. It went about as easily as any update I ever did AND I chose to do a full upgrade rather than just a patch, since there were some new features [...]

Corporate Greed and Politicians– Perfect Together. Now they’re trying to sell our internet to the highest bidder, ensuring that only those with the bucks can access the “higher tier” content. I’m embarassed to note that both NJ and PA representatives voted against the Markey amendment to ensure Network Neutrality.
Congressmen Barton and Rush are the culprits [...]

The new bundled software from Adobe shows Macromedia products included for the first time. Their new Design Bundle combines the full versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, Acrobat, Version Cue, Bridge, and Stock Photos with Macromedia Flash, for example, while the Web Bundle combines Macromedia Studio 8 with the Adobe Creative Suite, which is [...]

Kickass has just launched the new Robin Brande website on a new Custom Kickass WordPress Theme. Robin just landed a two book deal with Knopf, so probably before the end of the year you’ll be seeing her book, The Theory of Evolution, in your favorite bookstore. The launch should be making quite a stir in [...]

Over the last couple months a few really Kickass sites have launched on Kickass custom blogskins. You’ll see that the scope and variety is quite broad. Even though I curse at WordPress- often- I still can get some xhtml/css goodness going with it in the custom WordPress Themes I design.
The Fanboy and Goth Girl site [...]

Apple announced today the release of a new free beta download called Boot Camp which allows Macs running the Intel Chip to dual boot both OSX and WinXP. This is great news for front end devs who will only now need one machine for testing on both systems.
I bought a used IBook for testing websites [...]