While we were in England in September, we nipped over to see Long Meg and her daughters. […]
READ MOREAbout a month ago (I was at the DevLink conference), I heard about an iPhone app called 360 Panorama that takes panoramic pictures. The way it does it is quite intuitive once you realize that it takes a series of pictures and then stitches them together in software to produce a single JPG. […]
READ MOREThere are two types of sort algorithm: those that are stable and those that are not. Stable sorts maintain the order of items that are deemed equal, whereas unstable sorts make no such guarantees. […]
READ MOREAfter some 8 months of really trying to use it as my main machine for everything I do, I’m converting my MacBook Pro back into a Mac OS X only machine. In replacement, I just received a Dell XPS 15z. […]
READ MOREThe story so far: in essence I’ve added AddThis and Google +1 support to this blog using their “simple” markup. Unfortunately, the simple way breaks XHTML validation using the W3C validator because of the non-standard attributes (addthis:url, addthis:title) and elements (g:plusone). As I said previously, time to break out the JavaScript. […]
Up to now, I’ve used an old plug-in to GraffitiCMS to serve up a set of sharing buttons on this blog. Old as in the code used to have (until I took it out) a link for Furl – remember that? No, I don’t either. […]
READ MOREI haven’t been too happy about the facilities for commenting in GraffitiCMS ever since I started using it. Great for minor feedback, but awful for pasting code when crafting an implementation detail as an example. Since StackOverflow uses MarkDown for its comments and I’ve grown used to that, I decided to experiment adding it to my blog here as well. […]
READ MOREI’ve been meaning to do a bit of housework on this site to clean up the CSS and to add a bit of interactivity. After all, I write a lot about JavaScript, so I might as well start adding some to my blog. […]
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photo © 2010 Bill Abbott | more info (via: Wylio)Long ago someone signed me up to get emails from this wacko right-winger. Her emails are unfailingly stupid/vapid, forwarded ad nauseam, written in deathless, breathless prose, and the all-caps multi-exclamation-marked topics are easily debunked by 5 seconds research on snopes.com. Consequently they are hilarious. […]
My wife sent me an email today about Spokeo.com. This is a site that aggregates public information on the internet about individuals and then sells it. The site allows you to remove yourself if you want to. (In essence, search for yourself, find the page, copy the URL, and then click on the Privacy link at the bottom of the page. They send you an email with a remove link.) I removed her because of her job, but I decided to see what they had on me. […]
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