June 23rd, 2008
Dr. James E. Hansen is a World-renowned climatologist at NASA, widely praised for being one of the first scientists to recognise the effect of man-made carbon-dioxide production on the environment in a congressional testimony in the 1980’s.
Today, Dr. Hansen is back before congress, renewing his 20-year-old call to action:
On Monday, Dr. Hansen, 67, plans to give a briefing organized by a House committee and say that it is almost, but not quite, too late to start defusing what he calls the “global warming time bomb.” He will offer a plan for cuts in emissions and also a warning about the risks of further inaction.
The New York Times
Although he is vilified by some on the right for his stance on global warming, Dr. Hansen is one of the most credible climatologists in the World, and deserves to be heard. He is currently the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Al Gore’s chief science advisor.
June 19th, 2008
By default, Firefox 3 now blocks Javascript code from hiding the browser navigation bar. The idea behind this is simply to stop malicious popups from emulating a native OS window.
But, for advances users well aware of what constitutes a malicious popup and what it looks like, the ever-present navigation bar can be distracting. Fortunately, you can disabled it by altering a setting in about:config.
- Type about:config into the navigation bar and press Enter (ignore the warning).
- Type dom.disable_window_open_feature.location into the filter textbox. A single entry should remain.
- Change the value field to false.
You can now close the about:config window; popups can now hide the navigation bar like in previous versions of Firefox. To restore the default setting, simply change the value back to true.
June 18th, 2008
IBM has posted a new tutorial on the developerWorks site showing you how to debug PHP using the Eclipse PHP Developer Tools (PDT) plugin. Check out the article here (note: you need an IBM ID to view the full tutorial).
June 17th, 2008
It certainly took some time, but tonight Al Gore will endorse Obama in Flint, Michigan.
As many point out, this will not win Barack Obama an awful lot of new votes but it does get some hardcore Democratic activists and fundraisers on board.
I’m looking forward to seeing how Gore performs on the stump (assuming he’s going to campaign for Obama); while he was not an incredibly gifted speaker eight years ago, his style has matured significantly over the years, and would make for a commanding presence on the campaign trail.
