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Just updated Wordpress driving this blog to 2.3.3. Very pleasantly surprised. The update went exactly as the upgrade advice said!

Update: I have recreated the same script in Rebol, a very expressive scripting language.
If you are using Planet Sky internet service and your server computer is XP Professional then you can schedule the planetskyspeed batch file to automatically change your download speed based on the time of day. Download it here. This batch file assumes that your computer displays time using AM/PM format.

The batch file is 19 lines long - the Rebol script is just 6 lines long. Here it is:

REBOL []
system/schemes/http/user: 'USERNAME
system/schemes/http/pass: 'PASSWORD
;        00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
speeds: [ 3  3  3  3  4  4  5  5  5  5  4  4  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1]
extracthour: func [t] [t/hour]
read/custom http://customer.planetsky.com/speed/ reduce [
'post join "S=" pick speeds (extracthour now/time + 1) ]

Julian Borger in his Washington Diary column in The Guardian Weekly of October 20th, 2006 discusses the role of the US in North Korea’s Nuclear aspirations. While reading the article I was struck by the interactions between the parties and the way that a Causal Loop Diagram may help understand them.

Backing up files is a vital part of using IT. Unfortunately, backing up files is boring and potentially time consuming. This solution was arrived at after evaluating about 4-5 freeware, shareware and commercial alternatives. Read the rest of this entry »