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April 18, 2008

RRD4J. 100% Pure Java Implementation of RRDTool. Very cool. 'xxx4j' names were old in 1998. Java is already one of the main systems languages. No need to '4j-ify' everything.

April 17, 2008

Microsoft 1, blogsphere 0. Heh. Sure.

March 10, 2008

How to install Lookout on Outlook 2007. Most excellent.

January 16, 2008

The macworld keynote in 60 seconds. Most excellent. [via Techcrunch]

December 18, 2007

Review: Windows XP. Most excellent. Time to upgrade!

November 25, 2007

Tim O'Reilly is thankful he's not Bill O'Reilly. Hilarious.

November 20, 2007

Using Google to Hash MD5 Password. Shocking, and yet strangely appealing.

October 4, 2007

Must-have for Macs: MacFUSE and its useful friend MacFusion.

September 29, 2007

Quote of the day: "It is better to be wrong than to be vague." -- Freeman Dyson

September 15, 2007

Northwest Passage now open. On the plus side, you can now travel by sea between Europe and Asia. I sense tourism opportunities. Who said climate change was all bad?

September 11, 2007

Simple Authentication for the Web (PDF), a small paper that describes an interesting concept: passwordless-logins.

Rainbow Hash Cracking. Your passwords are safe on Windows... not!

September 9, 2007

The problem(s) with OpenID. I can't add much to it, other than this: I agree.

September 8, 2007

Interesting argument on Beautiful Code -- if perhaps a bit too pessimistic. :)

September 6, 2007

Conway's Game of Line in one line of APL. This is why APL is often called a "write-only language."

September 2, 2007

From an article in the New York Times: "Ahmed Zayat and Earle Mack hope that naming a racehorse after the famous Jewish philosopher Maimonides will spread a message of peace." Because that's what peace is really about.

August 14, 2007

Simon Willison: jQuery for JavaScript programmers. Great post!

August 8, 2007

Just watching the trailer of In the Shadow of the Moon is enough to give me goosebumps. This one will be a must-see.

from the dept-of-high-irony: Google Mistakes Own Blog for Spam, Deletes it.

August 5, 2007

Sunday entertainment: Let's watch a Muppet eat a computer! Hilarious. :)

August 2, 2007

Fun with HTTP headers. Great post.

The Flip Side of Entrepreneurship [via Marc]. Great read.

July 23, 2007

Oh boy. Exploiting the iPhone.

July 19, 2007

The Four Steps to the Epiphany is, according to Marc, so good that you should "Buy it, read it, keep it under your pillow and absorb it via osmosis." Enough said.

July 17, 2007

Leaflets. Cool stuff for your iPhone! [via Russ].

July 15, 2007

A Reintroduction to Javascript. Nice refresher for a Sunday night. :)

How Gullible Are We? [via Erik].

July 14, 2007

Breaking News: All Online Data Lost after Internet Crash. LOL!

Study: Alligators Dangerous No Matter How Drunk You Are.

A new release of the Ning Social Network is out. This time it's all about Network Badges and new Widgets. Weee!

July 13, 2007

What could you make from an iPhone? I'd like a double-shot latte, please.

Dare Obasanjo compares Google Base and Microsoft's Astoria. Interesting read.

It feels like a lifetime ago: how the web looked in 1994.

July 11, 2007

Developers: time for e-coffee mugs! Looking forward to a new monopoly in coffee tables that can be rebooted.

Anyone noticed how car crashes/action have started to feel waay more realistic in movies as of late? Exhibit 1, Exhibit 2. PS: that JJ Abrams movie has brilliant, brilliant marketing.

Only a few minutes old and already an inspiration! :-) Russ is blogging again. Yay!

And to start the miniposts... a little bit of back-referencing. You know, just for the symmetry of the thing.

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