Sequential Logic

Update: This method was always a bit hit and miss. It appears that Viddler has incorporated some “set thumbnail” functionality, see the comment below from Viddler’s Rob Sandie for more details.
If you need to set the thumbnails for your Viddler videos, I’ve created a quick and _dirty_ script that will allow you to do that [...]

Eweek magazine is the latest to jump on the “Green Issue” trend this month (enough already). Within it are the numbers I have been looking for to justify the very ungreen practice I have of never shutting off my computers. As a CTO and software guy, I am at my computer throughout the day and [...]

Over on TechCrunch, there is post about the new Mundu chat software for the iPhone that I have to take issue with. It makes some ridiculous statements about the price and pricing of software, but if you can get past (and discard) those statements, the argument may be sound.
In a nutshell, Mundu wants to charge [...]

There’s always something in the fine print of the digital download services that are coming out these days that show the big media companies “Just Don’t Get It”, and Amazon Unboxed is no different.
I was looking into the Tivo/Amazon Unboxed integration, thinking how cool it is that you can remotely buy a movie, and it [...]

We’re becoming experts in troubleshooting MP3 album art problems with various MP3 players. This time, a listener of one of our podcasts informed us some of our shows were causing his Samsung YP-Z5AS MP3 player to lock up when it tried to play some of our MP3 files. We got the exact model number from [...]

It appears that Yahoo Mail doesn't want you pulling in outside stylesheets. When our Trader Interviews email arrived in a Yahoo Mail account, the <link> tag to our CSS was replaced with an <xlink> tag, rendering it unusable. Googling around, it appears that xlink is a valid XHTML tag, but it appears that Yahoo is [...]

For the last two days, the SBC Global network has been having severe problems, cutting us off from our server for most of the business day:

We would love to have a redunadant cable modem link to the Net via Cox, except for one small problem; our landlord refuses to let Cox onto the premises. Cox [...]

Update: In WordPress 2.1.x, the code below is now in the file wp-includes/bookmark-template.php
I wanted to put an image in the sidebar of this blog, but the default code puts a border around the image, because it's also a link. I think that's generally unattractive, but even the link editor didn't allow me to set the [...]

When compiling mod_ruby under Fedora Core 5, and thus Apache 2.2, configure.rb assumes an incorrect path for the apr* files, and make kicked out the following errors:
# make
In file included from /usr/include/httpd/httpd.h:43,
from mod_ruby.h:49,
from mod_ruby.c:33:
/usr/include/httpd/ap_config.h:25:17: error: apr.h: No such file or directory
/usr/include/httpd/ap_config.h:26:23: error: apr_hooks.h: No such file or directory
/usr/include/httpd/ap_config.h:27:32: error: apr_optional_hooks.h: No such file or directory
...
The [...]

Scott Whitney had a question for us regarding the number of downloads of your RSS (XML) file versus the number of downloads of the actual audio file (Podcast) identified within it:
Do you have any data regarding the normal ratio between number of feed downloads (the XML file) versus the actual number of audio downloads? [...]