Lava has reemerged at Pu'u O'o vent, creating a vast, slowly circulating lake of lava, as captured from the USGS cams at dawn on 7/8/07. During the day, it doesn't look like much, but try the \<a href="http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/cam/"" target="_blank" rel="noopener …

If you end up seeing this draft, but no earlier than the 8th, then LiveWriter and das Blog can schedule drafts by "Post draft to Weblog" with a scheduled date. (This was scheduled for 7/8 4AM.)

I'm still working this out, but...

I believe the key is to "Post draft to Weblog" (not "Post to Weblog" or "Save local draft").

Further, there is definitely some hinkiness relating to UCT and TZ offset.

If, at 7/3 3:20 PM HST (== 7/4 1:20 UCT), I …

\<a href="http://www.backbaypress.com/skylines.html"" target="_blank" atomicselection="true" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Since LiveWriter Beta seems to not delay publishing until the "Set publish date" time (it just time-stamps them later, which is just annoying), I will be going dark for a few days of travel. In …

Based on comments to my earlier post, I put further work into Crystal Reports XI and SQL Server Reporting Services. Both seem capable-enough in terms of handling the data volumes and seem to have similar ease-of-use as far as the ultimate end-user goes (the inexperienced programmers who will be charged …

In this MSNBC article about the Boeing 787, the writer remembers "the noisy factory floors with handkerchief-clad mechanics clanging away on shiny metal." Was that one of those weird hippie things?

I was just reading "8 Tips and Tricks for Better BizTalk Programming" in the May 2007 MSDN when the word "Frisbee" in the author's bio caught my eye.

I was pretty good with a disc (3 world records, all of which have been long eclipsed), but Scott Zimmerman was the …

After Pele rolled over, she's gone into a deeper slumber and the Big Island is experiencing the lowest level of volcanic activity since 1983. Such pauses have happened twice before during the current 24-year-long eruption and previously lasted just a few weeks.

The effect on the Kona (leeward) side of …

I am setting the publish date of this post to tomorrow (6/30) at 6:00:00 AM, although I am publishing it on the 29th at 7PM.

Wii has announced that they will be opening the door to small developers on the Wii. The first take on this is that "WiiWare" is primarily about downloadable games a la XBox Arcade, but we all knew that was coming. More surprising is that Nintendo says that they will not …