Handy hint, Frontier Airlines: if you don’t have my name in your database, just don’t send the email: […]
READ MOREThe iPhone 5 comes with a new connector: out with the decade-old 30-pin dock connector and in with the Lightning connector. The new connector is way smaller (meaning that iOS devices can be even thinner than before), doesn’t depend on being inserted the ”right side up”, and of course just doesn’t work with all those devices you may have had with the old connector. At the time Apple promised an adapter to convert from old to new and also provided new USB cables. […]
READ MOREA couple of months ago, I was told some pretty sad news: after 26 years in the business, PC Plus was closing down. Future, the publishing company that owns it, decided that the magazine was no longer economically viable and that October 2012’s issue (number 326) was to be the last one. The news was made public about two weeks ago: […]
READ MOREA couple of weeks back, we went to the Pasta in the Park gala evening for TESSA, a charity that provides help for victims of domestic and sexual abuse here in Colorado Springs. Taste testing of pasta sauces by sponsors, silent auctions, raise the paddle auctions, drinking, eating, and supporting a great cause. […]
READ MOREAfter part one (generating the board) and part two (hooking up some basic mouse handlers), it’s time to refine the interactions. Specifically last time I noted that, as written, it was possible to change the preset 0s and 1s of the initial game, and it was all too simple to select the 0s and 1s as we navigate around the board. Let’s fix those issues right now. […]
READ MOREIn part one of this series, I coded up a basic 8×8 Tazuku board as a web page and populated it with an initial game. Time now to make the board interactive: I want to allow the user to alter cells with their guesses (or rather, “logically deduced answers”). […]
READ MOREWhen I described my newfound fondness for Takuzu, or the binary puzzle, I had in mind writing some code to implement it as a playable game. Because I’m into JavaScript these days, I decided to attack the project as a web page. […]
READ MOREAs mentioned in this post, I bought a Synology DS212 NAS for our home network, especially as our Acer WHS had a minor hiccup from overheating during the Waldo Canyon fire (we had to keep the windows shut from the smoke on some of the hottest days of the year). […]
READ MOREAs I mentioned in my last post I’ve bought a new router for home, installed Tomato on it, and, in itsy-bitsy writing at the end, noted that I’d turned on Quality of Service (QoS) on the router. All was good. […]
READ MOREThere were several cascading events in the run up to buying a new router: […]
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