Google Maps is even cooler now
December 6, 2011 by Frederick | Comments Off
3D in my browser, rendered by my browser? I gotta get this.
Tag Archives: online
When Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud goes down — even just one region — it takes Reddit, Quora, Netflix, Foursquare, Instagram, and many other sites down. It’s like part of the Internet goes dark.
At least that part of the Internet doesn’t include Twitter.
Captcha… or math-tcha
March 22, 2011 by Frederick | Comments Off
I ran into this puzzling CAPTCHA today. Although I clicked the refresh button to get a new image, I’ve been wondering whether I should have just typed in
\sum\limits^\infty_{m=1} \text{Itithe}For those of you unfamiliar with LaTeX: that code is rendered as
August 29, 2010
by Frederick
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Random PHP/MySQL discovery: time differences
I had been plagued by a nagging question while developing a PHP application: how do I calculate the difference between two timestamps, to check whether the timestamps are within x minutes of each other? My initial solution wasn't at all … Continue reading
July 15, 2010
by Frederick
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Tracking the #thesiswp matter: Part 1
Twitter erupted into argument last night in a fairly important battle for open source, the GPL, and WordPress. At the centre of the issue is a theme framework called Thesis which plugs into WordPress, sold with a restrictive license that … Continue reading
December 30, 2009
by Frederick
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Happy New Year!
It’s the end of another year and the end of a ground-breaking decade. Let’s look back at what’s been accomplished in the years of 2000–2009, focusing on technology. Technology Windows has entered a new era The decade—indeed, the century—began with … Continue reading
December 1, 2009
by Frederick
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A sad week for web hosts
It’s a sad week (well, two weeks) for web hosts. First, the company with which I have been a customer for over 2 years encountered issues after migrating to a new datacenter; these problems broke a number of my sites … Continue reading
November 9, 2009
by Frederick
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4 online document hosting services
Over a year ago, I compared two online services designed specifically for PowerPoint slideshows. Today, I want to review 4 free online document hosting services that take your document files and convert them to a format that can be embedded … Continue reading
