February 2009
29 posts
“In the same way that the US wasn’t about to start using thermonuclear weapons in...”
– Crime and Punishment
January 2009
26 posts
“In September of last year, Google announced its opposition to California’s...”
– Official Google Blog - Now Supporting Homosexuality
“For me, documentation isn’t always enough to learn about APIs; I need...”
– Playing around with Google’s AJAX APIs
“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to...”
– A small dose of History
“Unlike Arial, Verdana was specifically designed to be read at small sizes, and...”
– Fonts for web design - a primer
“I once heard an author remark that when you are a child you use a computer by...”
– Learning the shell.
It's Not Broken - It's Linux!
I thought that I was loosing my mind back when I was trying to get SSH working on windows. I tried everything I could lay my hand on - from Putty to OpenSSH and everything kept “freezing” when I would make it to the password prompt. I don’t know how much time I spent trying to find something, anything, that would explain why a solid XP machine couldn’t handle a couple tiny...
“My guess is you’re probably a typical ex-Windows user (as I was), used to...”
– File Permissions in Ubuntu
“The study estimated Google used 16.5% of all U.S. consumer Internet traffic in...”
– Google uses 21 times more bandwidth than it pays for
Weird people on facebook
It seems like you always end up with someone on your facebook account that you can’t remember adding - or even meeting. That is what happened to me with someone called “Greta Van Susteren”.
Some how she got on my friends list almost as soon as I started Facebook. I had no idea who she was, where I had met her, or even IF I had met her - yet there she was. I just chocked it up to...
“A simple claim of frequency response that cites two frequency extremes...”
– Understanding Loudspeaker Frequency Response
“I repeat, I got an email from Facebook this morning, informing me that I had...”
– Have We Gone 2.0 Far?
“It has 256 megabytes of memory - lol. I remember when I thought I was hardcore...”
– Customer Reviews Of EVGA GeForce 7200GS
“It’s the debate to end all debates. The quintessential battle between two breeds...”
– 50 Skills Every Real Geek Should Have
“I bet if IE6 or IE7 never existed, the learning curve for web development would...”
– Why Web Designers Need IE6
“If violence isn’t solving your problems, then you aren’t using...”
– Trying to pick a between a C2Quad or Ci7
“echo is marginally faster since it doesn’t set a return value if you...”
– What is the difference between echo and print?
“The Flickr service makes it possible to post content hosted on Flickr to outside...”
– Flickr Guidelines (i.e. why my images disapear)
The Start of a New Year
I spent New Years Eve over at some a friends house and we had a blast playing a yahtzee/poker/bluffing game. I actually ended up loosing as I found out that I am a really bad lire. (I have more cork marks than anyone). Yep, ashy-cork marks. That is what all that black stuff is. Every time someone calls your bluff (and it really was a bluff) you get one - and boy did I get one!
Looking back over...
“I’ve heard lots of excuses why people read other translations. Now,...”
– How to Read the King James