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Adobe LiveCycle 7 Announcement. This is the stuff I work on.

Here’s something I didn’t know about:  the Windows Server 2003 Volume Shadow Copy service. I knew NTFS supported this, but I didn’t know it’d made it all the way out to the GUI.  I’ve had Google Desktop Search save my bacon the way the VSC service promises to (since it keeps it’s own cache of what […]

This looks impressive: kafenio.

Back to my project to migrade my blog posts from Community Server to WordPress. WordPress supports the MetaWeblogAPI.  This API uses XML-RPC.  I started out looking for a Java wrapper for the MetaWeblogAPI, but couldn’t find anything useful. I found a content management system named Jahai that has a MetaWeblogAPIImpl class, but it doesn’t look like […]

I wrote a LitterMaid review a few years ago when I started using it, but mine has finally died. It may not have been completely beyond repair, but it was making some horrible grinding noises and having a hard time getting it’s job done. I didn’t replace it right away, because I’m going to be moving in […]

Looks like we have our own Iraqi Information Minister. “I’ve had no reports of unrest  …  I’ve had no reports of that” – FEMA Chief Michael Brown.    

The way this disaster is being managed continues to amaze me. It’s being handled so badly it’s beyond incompetant and makes me wonder what’s really going on behind the scenes. It’s hard to believe. This is a disaster. It’s not just a bunch of people who want to travel out of New Orleans, it’s a […]

The Interdictor is covering New Orleans from a unique angle. He’s keeping a datacenter alive, and reporting on what he’s seeing.

new_orleans_msi_aug31_2005_dg.jpg (JPEG Image, 4062×4544 pixels) courtesy of Digital Globe. What I don’t get is it looks like there’s a dry road from the SuperDome to the dry parts of the city. There are over 20k people at the SuperDome and they’re taking them out on buses a few at a time, but folks could at […]

Google Earth has made fresh imagery of the areas affected by the hurricane available.