It’s back to school for many colleges in the US, mine included. In addition to my usual composition classes, I’m teaching a section of American Literature II (i.e. since 1865) this fall. I’m pretty excited about that. This week, the kids are reading two by Walt Whitman: “Song of Myself and “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.”

SCO‘s anti-Linux, sue-everybody business plan has finally caught up with them. Ars Technica reports about a federal ruling that SCO never actually owned the Unix copyrights that they were so busy suing people for violating. Now there’s a revenue model I’d never considered: suing people for violating copyrights you don’t own. Nice. I’ve mentioned SCO [...]

Feel free to help me work out the kinks of my captcha code by posting a comment to this thread. The bit of code I use, in a slightly modified for, to protect myself from comment spam, doesn’t work on the new host because it makes a call to the bcmod() function of the bcmath [...]

I had a falling out with my previous hosting provider over the past week. Mediatemple sent me an email, claiming that my sites were eating up too many MySQL resources, and saying my account would automatically be upgraded to their new Grid Container technology. For that unsolicited service, my account would be charged an additional [...]