For those of you following along, there is a new update to the Gallery: Conor 04/09/28. I’ve also taken the time to update the software (an excellent Open Source web-based application called –appropriately enough– Gallery) from a beta version to the latest stable version, so most of the outstanding bugs should be clobbered. Let me know if you find any funkiness.
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Details are here. If you already have the Preview Release version, it’s a quick click to update your copy. If you’re not running the latest version of Firefox, you owe it to yourself to give it a go. I must say, between the Security Bug Bounty program and the availability of patches before any known exploit, the Mozilla folks are really continuing their trend of excellent security measures.
October 2nd, 2004
From Paul Graham, the author of Hackers and Painters, comes an entertaining and tell-it-like-it-is article entitled The Age of the Essay. Graham’s writings straddle an ineresting line that runs between modern technology and the traditional realm of art and literature. Delving deeping into history, geography, aethetics and the precepts of creating art, and comparing what he finds to the development of technologies, he has a talent of bringing two often-disparate worlds together in a way that makes absolute sense.
Even if you aren’t technically-inclined, this piece is filled with good, honest and practical advice about writing essays and other non-fiction works.
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