Archive for the 'Asides' Category
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 […]
February 7th, 2008 | Posted in Asides | No Comments
You dont often see this amount of concentration where I work!
December 24th, 2007 | Posted in Asides | No Comments
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 […]
November 15th, 2007 | Posted in Asides | No Comments
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 […]
September 17th, 2007 | Posted in Asides | 2 Comments
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, […]
August 15th, 2007 | Posted in Asides | No Comments
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
May 27th, 2007 | Posted in Asides | 1 Comment
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 […]
March 30th, 2007 | Posted in Asides | 3 Comments
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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March 25th, 2007 | Posted in Asides | No Comments
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 […]
February 2nd, 2007 | Posted in Asides | No Comments
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.
January 16th, 2007 | Posted in Asides | 1 Comment