Archive for the 'Asides' Category

How to fix txtsetup.sif is corrupt

The other day I was trying to get an unattended Windows XP CD to work in a virtual machine, but by mistake I ran it on my physical PC. I thought I cancelled it in time, before it had a chance to do any damage to my Windows installation, and I was able to continue […]

Concentration at Work

You dont often see this amount of concentration where I work!

Check out this MASSIVE Printer

I love how they made it look just like a normal desktop printer, just really really big.

Imagine trying to buy new ink cartridges for this thing.
Note the flashing lights to warn folks that this is a MASSIVE printer.

Yes, thats a PC monitor on the right hand side.
Best-Quality mode: 600 dpi (apparent)High Quality mode: 448 dpiProduction […]

Links of the Day

Cool Eclipse Plugins to make development with Eclipse even better
300+ Tools for your Wordpress Blog
Brazilian Waxing O_o
Google Gears lets users use your web application offline
Member Management System with Scriptaculous is a comprehensive user management system
pQuery lets use use the power of jQuery with pure PHP
Asp.Net is a useful resource for ASP development
BlogDesk is a powerful […]

Fix for StatTraq Calendar bugs

The StatTraq plugin for Wordpress has a bug where the Year and Month time periods are not displayed correctly. Here is a fix for the problem.
Download this StatTraq Calendar Patch. Extract calendar.php from the file and copy it into your \wp-stattraq folder, replacing the file that already exists there.
Now when you check your StatTraq statistics, […]

Useful Javascripts

Walter Zorn has useful javascripts for vector graphics, drag and drop, tooltips and image rotation.
YUI-EXT is a comprehensive Javascript library for developing web applications.
Vector graphics class for Ext
Tree panel with context menu
Drag and drop in a grid
Modern Blue Design has an interesting article on how to fight spam using CSS

Martial Arts Moves Revealed in Fight Science Lab

Solomani did a great summary of this Martial Arts documentary I watched last year. Basically it goes through a bunch of martial arts myths and abilities and uses science to figure out if it’s true and how they do it. Essentially they used a modified $150,000 crash-test dummy for the testing. Here are […]

Using MS-Access with MySQL

In a project I was working on recently, I moved the backend database from Microsoft Access to MySQL. It worked for the most part, but every so often I would get Write Conflict errors on certain rows of a table.
write conflict
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The ISS and the Shuttle

This is a fantastic photo of the space shuttle and the International Space Station silhouetted against the Sun.

Ciclops.org also has beautiful photos of Saturn and its rings. What is amazing about this photo is that just to the left of the main ring you can see Earth. The photo was taken by the Cassini […]

The Living Camera

Stephen Wiltshire draws an incredibly accurate picture of Rome after a 45 minute helicopter ride. He says that St. Peters, the Forum and the Colleseum were easier than the detail of the cities neighbourhoods and villages. Amazing.