Leaning Towards Co-Location [SitePoint]

Kahlil Gibran. “If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.” [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

Man, have I ever learned that one in my lifetime…

Dan Rather. “A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.” [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

Design

I’m not going to give you all the lnks to this poem’s many critics and analysts, check them out on Google. I just like it as a rather mysterious text.

Design by Robert Frost

I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth —
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches’ broth —
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.

What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?–
If design govern in a thing so small.

[Halley’s Comment]

PHP 4.3.0 Released [Slashdot]

Using CUPS for DeskJet Printing with a Netgear Print Server. For some time, I’ve used a Netgear PS110 print server to connect printers with just a parallel port to my home network so that my printers can sit in a more convinient location. Now that I’m using OS X, I was a little worried that it might not work. Turns out it works just fine using CUPS. Here’s what I did: [Windley’s Enterprise Computing Weblog]

Is it just me or is the world suddenly a much dangerous place than it was a year or so ago? 

I write this on Amtrak as we pass through Brooklyn on the way back to Boston.  Off to my left through the huge windows in my car is the skyline of lower manhattan.  We all know what happened there.

North Korea Says It Will Expel Inspectors and Restart Lab. North Korea ordered U.N. inspectors out of the country and said it would restart a lab where foreign officials say weapons-grade plutonium can be made. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]