Ryan Tomayko

The del.icio.us social bookmark system completely replaces my in-browser bookmarks with the addition of the following Keymarks (or Searchlets or Address-barlets or whatever you call them).

Will anti-circumvention apply to normal web content? Is it ethical to modify the style or functionality of a website with tools like browser extensions or user stylesheets? Does anyone care?

I'll let you punch me in the arm the next time I see you if you just go read this paper.

I, Robot got you down? Maybe ALICE can cheer you up—or not.

Making User Stylesheets (CSS) a little more useful.

It's too good to be true. Avoid anything this simple and elegant.

If you only have time to read one 521 page government report this year, make sure it is the Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq.

Google doesn't forget.

With the 100 GB mailbox size, filter support, and labels Gmail may make a really solid mailing list aggregator.

GNOME 2.6 w/ GTK+ 2.4 seems considerable more responsive than previous versions.

URLGrabber gets a home at Duke..

The benefits of protecting intellectual property should be weighed against the cost in information flow.

Play Enemy Territory? Try Covert Ops..

The two URLGrabber source trees have been sync'd up again.

Daily Show Feb 09, 2004.

Trying to get some time allocated for URLGrabber in the coming weeks.

A Syndicate Feed Normalizer / Aggregator

A simple method of ensuring True/False works in all versions of python.

Can rdiff-backup and yum be used to provide an intelligent system for backing up only what cannot be retrieved from package repositories?

So I was able to package up some simple Firebird extensions into RPMs. Here are my initial findings and some thoughts on moving forward.