Relatively minor compared to some of the truly life-or-death, torturous examples of the pendulum swing following 9/11 and the assent of the current US Regime, but sometimes it’s the little things, the petty annoyances which wake up the everyday people.

A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears - New York Times

Mr. Marshall said he did not understand “how Web sites owned by a British national operating via a Spanish travel agency can be affected by U.S. law.” Worse, he said, “these days not even a judge is required for the U.S. government to censor online materials.”

Fight the power.

(Via Daring Fireball)

Daily Kos: Wikileaks Under Attack: California Court Wipes Wikileaks.org Out of Existence

There have, of course, been previous attempts by the U.S. Government and others to block publication of particular documents, most famously in 1971 when the Nixon administration attempted to stop publication by the New York Times of excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, leaked by Daniel Ellsberg. But trying to close down an entire site in this way is truly unprecedented. Not even the Nixon administration, when they sought to block publication of the Pentagon Papers, considered closing down the New York Times in response.

As frightening as it is farcical…

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Google is secretly praying for the Microhoo deal to go through

In ten or twenty years there will be only a handful of service providers and if youre bummed by the kind of vendor lock-in we used to see from IBM in the old days or that we see from Microsoft today, just wait till you see the lock-in that these global compute utilities will be able to get. Eric says this is going to be the golden age of cornholing. It will make the old Bell System crooks look like amateurs. The guys running the cloud will control everything: phone, data, video, television, movies, music.

Making a dozen or so now…

HOWTO: iPhone Webclip Icons - Dan Dickinson: The Primary Vivid Weblog

So: if you want to make a custom icon for your website that will show up in the Springboard when a user makes a “webclip”, using their iPhone or iPod Touch, the dirt simple way is:

1 ) Create a 57×57 PNG.
2) Name it “apple-touch-icon.png”
3) Throw it in the root folder of your website. Not the root of your server, the root of your web documents.

Lately I’ve been experiencing frequent timeouts while uploading files via FTP using Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. Turns out the default timeout (Dreamweaver - Settings - Site) is 2 seconds, which sometimes isn’t enough for the real world. I’ve changed this to 300 seconds for now, and it’s working much better.