tim lindner's personal blog

Frequently in my web servers logs I would see a request for an RSS feed I have available from a "PubSub" user agent from my IP address. It bothered me because the feedreader I use doesn't use Apple's PubSub library to read feeds. So I…

I'm checking out the world clock on my iPhone and saw this: It looks like the date shortening routine is a little too aggressive for this use.

Here is a chart showing The Rainbow's page count over time:

That line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail keeps going thru my mind. Mainly because I finally became 37 a few days ago. I've always hated people celebrating my birthday. I've never like to make a big deal about it. Fortunately my wife has…

A long time ago Apple Computer released an operating system called Mac OS9. Microware, the makers of OS-9, sued for trademark infringement and lost. I was quite surprised. It seemed like classic trademark dilution to me. Then a few years later Apple released Mac OS…