January 2009
23 posts
The expert's guide to napping →
Jan 29th
Twitter's Mozilla Problem
marco: Firefox 3 still has this annoying text-rendering bug for me. [Bug relating to the awesome conversion of o/ to ø] This might be related to the Twitter random-spaces-in-words bug: does this say “for th e Underworld” in Firefox 3 for you? (Note that the offending space in “th e” isn’t in the HTML source.) Update (Soon after this was posted): Twitter fixed the page template and removed the...
Jan 27th
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Street scams of Barcelona →
Jan 25th
Coffee may help keep dementia at bay →
I may have to start drinking coffee again.
Jan 25th
Riddle me this:
lovepuppy: Why did DVDs go from having pictures and colors on them (the actual disc) to being all gray and silver? Can one of you LA kids help me out on this? k, thanx, Jess Aren’t these just the rental dvd’s. I would hope that the retail discs are still as colorful as ever.
Jan 24th
Marco's product reviews cause people to make... →
marco: This has been a great day for email. ([The email’s] author probably saw my review _of_ a Bertolli product and assumed that I _was_ Bertolli. People make the same mistake all the time with my ancient butter cookie review, emailing me to ask for a refund because their cookies were stale or find a local distributor.) I wonder if there would be the same level of confusion if...
Jan 23rd
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Unusual Beaches →
Jan 23rd
A Bad Mommy Moment →
Jan 23rd
Jan 21st
WinTumblr goes Open Source
wintumblr: It is time for WinTumblr to go open source. If you’re keen to build WinTumblr into the best Windows tumblr client then take a look at WinTumblr’s Google Code site and download the source. Join the discussion group via the Google Code website and start a discussion with me. Awesome! Only the best Windows tumblr client has gone totally open source. I Wonder how many C# developers...
Jan 18th
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Tony Hart dies at 83 →
I have fond memories of watching Tony Hart and Morph on tv during my early childhood.
Jan 18th
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Jan 15th
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jQuery 1.3 Release Notes →
The jQuery Javascript library is my first choice for client side Web page manipulation and interactivity and the latest version has just been released. I first looked at the performance improvements to see just how much faster this new version of jQuery is over the previous version, it’s a lot faster at the important jobs. They have also included some great new features that should make my...
Jan 14th
QT gets a new licensing option - LGPL →
QT is a cross platform development library that is possibly one of the best available. You just couldn’t use it without paying a hefty license for proprietary software development, until now.
Jan 14th
The bumper list of Windows 7 secrets →
Some of the user interface enhancements, like the multi-monitor tools, are simply cool. The fact that it can install from a USB key is even more awesome. I don’t believe Vista is a bad OS, quite the opposite in fact. I do believe that Windows 7 finishes what Microsoft tried to create with Vista. Only about 5 years late – I’m grateful they didn’t give up.
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A River of Twit →
I cannot help but get excited over the plans for the new twit real-time text messaging service. If it gets done right then it opens up a brand new way of dealing with text based information.
Jan 2nd
Some more SQL injection fun →
The reason why filtering and escaping user input are not enough….
Jan 2nd
SQL injection using CAST and ASCII →
It may be oriented towards Coldfusion code but the lessons are useful for any DB backed website. Check out the links to the other SQL injection blog posts in the ‘Related Blog Entries’ section for more fun information.
Jan 2nd