Jon Simpson’s Weblog

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Archive for September, 2005


Information Flows, The Internet & CS Department Homepages

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

This is fast becoming a trend, but this post is directly in response to a number of posts by Matt regarding the UKC CS department’s website. To give some context to my own take on this, its worth noting that my business is heavily based around various web applications and web sites, and I have [...]

Tiger MPlayer Compilation Weirdness

Saturday, September 10th, 2005

OS X’s weird changes to the unix layers on which it builds are usually bearable. Mainly because they don’t get in the way, or create any real problem in everyday use (Including the fact that the Finder loves to hide unixy pieces of the filesystem away). However, sometimes it can be a real pain in [...]

The Hosting Debate

Saturday, September 10th, 2005

So Matt’s been blogging recently about the options faced by people maintaining several reasonably sized web sites. I figure I’ll add my 2 cents on the issue, if only to follow up on my earlier post about the joys of dedicated server-dom.