For the past couple of days I’ve been involved in setting up a surveillance system at a client’s premises. It’s a system of wireless cameras each streaming video to a central repository.
The nice thing about it is that anything with a web browser can pull the camera feeds, so they’ll end up using their mobile [...]
The ANZ bank has a website allowing you to order a new card with a picture on it. They call it DesignMyCard, but it doesn’t feel much like my card with the terms and conditions being as restrictive as they are.
trademarks, logos, slogans, company names, get up, copyrighted material or brands of any third party
advertising [...]
I wrote a little code snippit the other day to warn readers about posts further down the page, which may not be safe to have on your screen at work. This was a really simple exercise, but it really bugged me that this short warning message always began with a digit. To me, that just [...]
After running Apache 1.3, PHP 4.3 and MySQL 4.1 for historical compatibility reasons for a long time, I finally decided to rewrite some old code, update some old tools and update the server software to the new branches. I felt really good about it all until MySQL refused to start.
Those of us who run cPanel on our servers [...]
The first archaeological dig at Stonehenge in 40 years, may have revealed some information about the structure’s purpose.
Funded by the BBC and documented for broadcast later this year, this two week dig has yielded perhaps more interesting results than anyone could have planned for.
Researchers investigated ’sockets’ at the site containing blue-stones which were transported great [...]
If you run a small website, but haven’t heard of Google Analytics then you’re missing out. Google offers a hosted stats system for website owners who want to take an interest in where their traffic is coming from and how long visitors spend on their site, but that offering has just become a lot more [...]
Right now, and for a limited time only, if you visit Google Translate and translate a sentence with Heath Ledger’s name in it from English to Spanish, you’ll get a result referring to the much maligned Tom Cruise.
So, do the españophones really think that Heath Ledger is a scary whacked out scientologist with control issues? [...]
Check out a Discovery Channel documentary on the process of manufacturing precision lenses. Given the expense of materials and the slow and detailed process, it’s easy to understand why lenses cost so damned much.
Or: “The life-changing decisions of an aspiring photographer.”
My blogging has been somewhat slow lately. That’s because what would usually be my blogging energy has been going into research some may consider disproportionately deep considering the subject matter.
I’ve been a user of high-end consumer cameras for a long time now, and while I really love photography, [...]
Take a moment to enjoy a dramatic reading of a real breakup letter. Make sure your sound is on for this one.
This has been passed around the net a lot, but unlike most of those things this one is actually pretty funny.
I’ve had this thought rattling around in my head for at least the last eight or nine years, and my friends are no doubt sick of me bringing it up. I feel like it’s almost upon us, so I guess it’s high time I wrote down my thoughts a little more formally. This is a [...]
These days a lot of us spend more time with our hands on our keyboards than we do on our lovers, so it’s definitely worth investing in one that’s right for you.
Following some links, I managed to get sucked into a black hole of intelligence where only the indescribably stupid can survive. I felt myself devolving the longer I stayed. It was like a Barney episode with a repetitive techno soundrack.
On my way out I found this guy’s website [link removed by request]. On it he [...]
I’m a big fan of interoperability, but there’s a point at which your investment in a particular vision or statement starts to suffer. I’m slowly doing all the things I want to, to this site, but there’s one thing I’ll never be able to achieve efficiently, and I have to admit it bugs me!
If you [...]
I’m not a huge fan of multi-part blog posts, but this topic is such a big one for me that I’ll have to make an exception.
The name stands for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility, but it’s difficult to ignore the obvious relationship to the surname of renowned science fiction author Isaac Asimov, author of the [...]
A thread by Beejy on the (spanking new) forums, about workplaces blocking access to time-wasting sites like MySpace and Facebook, reminded me of a website I tripped over a while ago.
Great Firewall of China purports to allow testing whether or not a particular website is blocked by the government of China, in their efforts to [...]
The morons at Ten News have put to air a story about MySpace taking some token PR steps to increase the safety of kids on their service. Basically it was a fluff-piece for MySpace, helping them address the PR concerns which have been plaguing them precisely because mainstream media has blown everything out of proportion [...]
If you run your own blog, as opposed to using one of those marvelous cluster-fucks like Blogger, then you know the joy of clearing spam posts intimately.
You can make it more difficult to comment on your blog by introducing an image verification system… You can keep checking your spam bin to see whether any legitimate posts are being caught… [...]
Today Google added an ‘extra large’ option to Google Image Search. This makes it easier to search for images for your high-resolution desktop, or for use in print. Teachers will be especially happy to be spared the horror of over-stretched images in homework. The rest of us should be respecting coprights a little more than [...]
Thank you Jayme Blackmon for the simple IE6 Double Margin Bug Fix, and thanks to Google for listing it first.
If you have a floated element such as a div and you place margin-right or margin-left on that element, our most beloved Internet Explorer 6.0 will double that margin value, causing havoc in your html layout. To [...]
Most people aren’t particularly careful with their computers. As a result quite a number of residential PCs are infected with virii, worms and spam relay agents. In an effort to contain this malware, a number of ISPs have elected to prevent their customers from connecting to outbound mail services outside of the ISP’s own network.
This [...]
I completely understand Joe Inventor using a light bulb to test his new capacitance switching mechanism, but thats where the marriage between light bulb and touch switch should have ended.
In the real world, touch lamps are worse than useless. The problem isn’t the touch sensitivity technology really, it’s the choice to implement a 3-stage dimming [...]
Globalisation is great. I think it’s awesome that the whole world is given the opportunity to compete for my business.
The trouble is that engineers write the documentation… or worse, the promotional material. :)
The RS485 has an outstanding characteristic of intelligent directing control which eliminates the extra control signal like RTS. With this feature you can [...]
