Monthly Archives: July 2007

Linde has learned to smile, and how!

Linde not only knows how to fly. She has learned to smile too. And, clearly, she's been getting a lot of practice lately: :-D Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on July 29, 2007, at 22:07 | 1 comment

Linde learns to fly

Linde is my niece. She was born to my sister in March of this year. I'm a very, very proud uncle. Did I mention how proud I am? I'm proud. Especially now that she is learning how to fly! Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on July 29, 2007, at 21:07 | No comments

Can NeuStar be trusted to keep networks together?

Trusted to bring networks together, beams NeuStar's corporate slogan. After my previous two posts, I'm still hoping that they can be trusted to keep networks together too. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on July 24, 2007, at 00:07 | No comments

Changed the Nexus agreement for BigSmoke.US

My usage of the BigSmoke.US domain didn't get approved yet. I was hoping for a little advice to come my way by submitting an Ask Slashdot this morning, but the story didn't get past the firehose. After realizing that I should have submitted the story to my /. journal as that would allow Slashdotters to comment without the story having to make it, I just added a journal entry. I want all the exposure and feedback that I can get. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on July 21, 2007, at 23:07 | 3 comments

Crackdown on my .US infiltration attempt

Wether it has something to do with the current Terror Alert level or with a renewed surge of isolationism I don't know, but my foreign ass no longer seems to be welcome below the Dot-US TLD. Never mind that almost all of my visitors are American. Or that my dot-US websites are hosted at US-based NearlyFreeSpeech. Or are my ties to the states sufficient that I just need to deliver the proof? Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on July 20, 2007, at 16:07 | 2 comments

Native PostgreSQL authentication in Rails with rails-psql-auth

A while ago, I wrote a PostgreSQL auth plugin for Rails. The plugin basically defers all authentication and authorization worries to the database layer where they are supposed to be taken care of anyway. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on July 16, 2007, at 14:07 | No comments