Just over 3 years ago, I wrote a post about my wife Donna prosecuting a particularly nasty case of child pornography. The defendant, Erik Rabes, was charged with five counts: sexual assault on a child, sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust, two felony counts of sexual exploitation of a child, and a misdemeanor count of sexual exploitation of a child. It was the first ICAC (Internet Crimes Against Children) case that made it to trial in Colorado (usually the defendants in these kinds of cases plea out early). To summarize, Donna did a fantastic job prosecuting him and the jury found him guilty on all counts. He got two concurrent ten year sentences for the sexual assault counts, two consecutive 12-year sentences for the felony exploitation counts, and a concurrent 24 month sentence for the misdemeanor. Total elapsed time: 34 years. […]
photo © 2009 Caitlin Childs | more info (via: Wylio)I was doing a bit of research to try and find some nuggets of information on URL rewriting, especially with regard to GoDaddy’s shared hosting (I run this website (and others) on GoDaddy). I found this article in Google’s cache but the original site (codebeater.com) has gone away (I presume the domain wasn’t renewed). The article was by CodeBeater’s admin. […]
So, last night I was working on my URL shortening website (jmbk.nl) and the application that generates the short URLs and that redirects existing ones to the actual URLs. And for some unknown reason, the redirections just weren’t working on the actual website. I’d get server errors (even “404-Not Found” server errors) and my redirection ASPX page just didn’t seem to get called. It was, to be polite, a mess. And, because it was late at night and I was tired I was flailing around trying stupid stuff to see what stuck and nothing would. […]
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photo © 2007 Beverly | more info(via: Wylio)
UPDATE (6-Feb-2017) Wylio still exists, but is now a paid subscription, plus in making it so they broke all their previous photo URLs. Having just spent a couple of hours redoing the markup for all the photos I've used, I do not recommend it at all any more. […]
A couple of months ago I finished an article for PCPlus about algorithms for solving Rubik’s Cube. It’ll appear in issue 298 in September 2010. […]
READ MORERecently it seems that I’ve been banging my head against the ceiling of my 128GB drive in my laptop. My drive comes up red in Windows Explorer every now and then and red is the color that makes you panicky. And before you say, “128GB? How old is this laptop?” let me explain that it’s an SSD and that’s all I could afford at the time I upgraded the drive. […]
READ MOREIn playing around with my blog’s new iPhone support I came across a doozy of a problem. […]
READ MOREThis blog uses GraffitiCMS as the blogging engine. This software has now been open-sourced by the original developers, Telligent, and is available on CodePlex. Although it’s pretty full-featured and does most of what I want and need from a blogging engine (and has lots of features I don’t use) there is no built-in support as yet for providing a special view for mobile devices. […]
READ MOREYesterday afternoon I finished my latest PCPlus article on generating all possible arithmetic expressions with four operators. The article explored several algorithms, such as evaluating all full binary trees with a certain number of internal nodes (mine was four), evaluating an expression tree, and the like, and for the sidebar I slipped in a quick bit about RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) and how succinct it is for describing arithmetic expressions (there’s no operator precedence or parentheses to worry about). Equally important is the absolute ease with which you can evaluate an RPN expression compared to an algebraic one (that is, an expression using the standard infix notation). […]
READ MOREI’m in a show at the moment at the Fine Arts Center here in Colorado Springs (as it happens, tonight is opening night). We’re doing Crazy For You, a modern musical that marries up lots of great Gershwin tunes with a light 30s style plot. And tap dancing. Lots of tap dancing. Man, am I glad I’m not in those numbers: I get exhausted just watching. […]
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