October 31, 2004
October 28, 2004
October 27, 2004
October 26, 2004
October 25, 2004
October 23, 2004
October 22, 2004
TV-B-Gone: status report
The good news: Web site back up, finally.
The bad news: All out of stock, not taking orders yet.
The bad news: All out of stock, not taking orders yet.
Your Friday joke roundup
Including the gem
A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: “That's the ugliest baby that I've ever seen.” The woman goes to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: “That driver just insulted me!” The man says: “You go right up there and tell him off – go ahead, I'll hold your monkey for you.”
October 21, 2004
Dyslexic Phishing
Today I got this rather amusing attempt at a phishing email. It, ah, speaks for itself. Use "view source" to be further amused.
Not only is it illegible, the URL features a triple Google redirect to nowhere at all.
Dera Cinabitk Memebr,
Tsih emial was stne by the Citinabk serevr to vfirey yruo emlia aerddss. You mtsu comelpte tsih prossec by clnikcig
on the likn belwo and entireng in the sllam winodw yuor CitabinkATM-Dtibe Cdra numreb and PNI thta you use on AMT.
Thsiis doenfor yoru protectoin - baceuse soem of our memebrs no longrehaev assecc to tehir emali adserds and we
muts virefy it.
To veirfy yuor emali arddess and aseccs yuor bakn accnuot, ckcil on the lnik bleow:
www.citibank.com/?qFmJAqRlkr2wpHXwxoeAj170h0i6rm2fp6wSqDyWPcQOG8FswZPVAcx8h4m5l
Not only is it illegible, the URL features a triple Google redirect to nowhere at all.
October 20, 2004
Webnote - an online tool for taking notes
More collaborative editing online, but with XSS vulnerabilities added!
Skinning Gmail with a Custom Stylesheet
Presumably this could be adapted to any other web site you care about. Mmm, Slashdot.
City of Palo Alto: Creek Monitor
I blogged it last year, and now that the rains are upon us I'll blog it again.
October 19, 2004
October 18, 2004
October 14, 2004
I love machine translation
Tacos Al Pastor. Note the sixth ingredient. Don't try this in your kitchen, kids.
October 12, 2004
October 11, 2004
Advanced debugging tips and stuff you never knew about the "Find" combo box
Wooo. This week's other hot Windows tip is that you can press Ctrl+C in a MessageBox dialog to copy all the text to the clipboard. The question remains: why didn't I already know this?
Another reason to buy "The Sims"
Games don't make people violent. Violent people make people violent. Or something.
October 10, 2004
October 09, 2004
Dell power adapter recall
The affected adapters were shipped with Latitude, Inspiron and Precision M40 notebooks 9/1998-2/2002.
- Part number is 09364U, 04983D or 07832D
- Manufacturer is Delta Electronics (mine is Astec China - yay, I'm not affected!)
October 08, 2004
Party Ben's Sixx Mixx
More available at his web site. They are all rather cool in various ways, and if you're within range of Live105 then you can catch the new ones on Fridays, 6-630pm...
(Thanks, Boom Selection via DJ French Bloke)
(Thanks, Boom Selection via DJ French Bloke)
October 07, 2004
October 06, 2004
Now in MP2 format
But where's episode 3? (Episode 1 was also here)
Update: There are torrents, but they don't work for me :(
Further update: Episode 3 is here but called episode 2.
Update: There are torrents, but they don't work for me :(
Further update: Episode 3 is here but called episode 2.
October 05, 2004
October 04, 2004
The Household Cyclopedia
Or, "how to kill yourself, your pets and your friends, using heavy metals and other dubious remedies". Watch out for horses with farcy, glanders, spavins, wind-galls, cribbiting, and other disorders. Dog got mange? Mercurial ointment. Distemper? Try opium. I find it odd that females have their own class of diseases, yet males do not. Don't try this at home, kids.
October 01, 2004
How To Write Unmaintainable Code
New code style guidelines for the masses: the naming part is particularly entertaining.
Use accented characters on variable names. E.g.
typedef struct { int i; } ínt;
where the second ínt's í is actually i-acute. With only a simple text editor, it's nearly impossible to distinguish the slant of the accent mark.
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