http://www.temme.net/sander Tales From a Different Latitude Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:35:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have turned on SSL on my site, primarily to be able to log into the management interface of the blog engine over a secure connection. You are welcome to read the blog over SSL. The certificate was signed by Cacert.org, so you will want to download their ... http://www.temme.net/sander/2008/10/02/ssl-now-enabled/ Registration is now open for ApacheCon US 2008. There will be an Early Bird discount, so register early and Save! The schedule is up and I'm very happy to see the return of the schedule grid that shows the entire conference on one page. J. Aaron has ... http://www.temme.net/sander/2008/08/01/apachecon-us-2008/ Cafe La Haye does not need another write-up. However, I have to mention them because we couldn't remember when last we had a meal out where every course, every dish, was so on the mark. From the Grilled Peach and Prosciutto Salad to the Hand-Torn Papardelle, to the Angus ... http://www.temme.net/sander/2008/07/19/sonoma-cafe-la-haye/ As noted by Duncan who blogged on the topic in May, the New York Times ran an interesting piece this weekend about Energy Policy in the United States. It gives a good overview about the inaction that we have seen in the decades since the first oil crisis, and ... http://www.temme.net/sander/2008/07/08/oil-on-fire/ Firms whose business interests are served by having us be scared of scams advise us to expect scams. Film at eleven. http://www.temme.net/sander/2008/07/05/the-news-be-scared/ Over the past couple of weeks, more than a thousand wildfires have burned in California. Most were set off by lightning strikes two weeks ago. The air has been really smoky, burning our throats. Sunsets have been really murky. As of this week about 400 fires remain. ... http://www.temme.net/sander/2008/07/02/our-state-is-on-fire/ This has already been Slashdotted, but it's so cool I just had to mention it. Michael Ogawa at UC Davis has graphed the development activity of a number of open source projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. If you run the video, you'll see developer's names float in and ... http://www.temme.net/sander/2008/06/16/httpd-visualization/ Tonight, Josh Fix and his band will play the second of four shows at Arlene's Grocery on 95 Stanton Street in New York. I haven't been there but we're great fans of Josh and you should go check it out. And then tell your friends so you can ... http://www.temme.net/sander/2008/05/13/josh-fix-at-arlenes/ The other day, trying to sleep in yet another hotel room. There was a periodic blinking light in the smoke alarm... more like a small flashbulb. The front of the flatscreen TV (nice, they even had some HD content) had a steady red LED, and somewhere in the ... http://www.temme.net/sander/2008/04/24/relaxen-und-watchen-das-blinkenlichten/ For some time, any time I downloaded a Microsoft Office document in Safari, the browser appended an extra filename extension to the saved download, which turned the Office Document into an Office Template. A Word Document gets a .dot suffix, a Powerpoint slide show gets .pot, and an ... http://www.temme.net/sander/2008/04/22/msword-safari-doc-dot/