I ran across this page on the Treasury’s website via Marc Cuban’s blog. It shows the yield on US government treasury bonds, adjusted for inflation. If the yield on a bond is 3% and inflation is 2.5%, the real yield is 0.5%. So in inflation adjusted terms, anyone buying 5yr treasuries today is paying the […]
August 10, 2011 | Economics | No comments
This is the other point of view. An interview the BBC probably won’t air again. I don’t condone violent demonstrations and I think the the looting of small businesses is sad and immoral. But you should understand that sometimes when people hit the streets en masse and make some noise, it has a purpose. It […]
August 9, 2011 | Politics | No comments
News [April 24th, 2012]: I’ve launched Wordfence to permanently fix your WordPress site’s security issues. Click here to learn more. If you run a reasonably high traffic blog on a small Linode server like this one, it’s a really good idea to set up an Nginx front-end proxy for your Apache server. It lets you […]
August 9, 2011 | Advanced Wordpress, Nginx, PHP, Wordpress | No comments
I just noticed Matt put a post up this morning giving a further update re TimThumb. You can read it here.
August 8, 2011 | Randomness | No comments
I have a sinking feeling there will be blood. Right now Dow is down 4.45%, S&P down 5.69%, Nasdaq down 5.7%, Gold up 3.87% and rising. The DAX closed down 5% and the worst drops happend towards end of trading, so I’m expecting the same for US markets. Update: I hate to say I told […]
During a test in the Nevada desert of a miniaturized nuke called Scorpion, theoretical physicist and weapons designer Ted Taylor used a parabolic mirror to light a cigarette. Ah the good old days. This is an extract from Under The Cloud by Richard Miller:
August 7, 2011 | Randomness | No comments
News [April 24th, 2012]: I’ve launched Wordfence to permanently fix your WordPress site’s security issues. Click here to learn more. I’ve done a ton of work on TimThumb this weekend and there are a few great enhancements. E.g. if you have pngcrush or optipng installed, it will now use 66% less disk space and give […]
This is a wonderful poem by Walt Whitman where he explores how the formalization of science and nature robs it of it’s mystery and wonder. If you’re a programmer who has done any time at a University, you’ll recognize Whitman’s sentiment. It first appeared in the “By the Roadside” section of the standard 1892 edition […]
I did a ton of work on timthumb today. Download the latest version to get a whole lot of security and performance improvements and bugfixes. It’s available now.
August 6, 2011 | TimThumb | No comments