December 6, 2011 by Frederick | Comments Off
3D in my browser, rendered by my browser? I gotta get this.
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.
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
January 31, 2011
by Frederick
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Dear Netflix (you dirty freeloader): Please pay us €3 for every gigabyte of traffic you send to our wireless networks (and €0.05 per GB to our wired networks). Sincerely, Europe’s largest ISPs.
April 7, 2010
by Frederick
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Just like “unlimited” really means subject to limits, the marketing guys at Rogers seem to communicate that “any” doesn’t mean any. Any tier Yesterday, I got an ad in the mail from them for their digital cable service, offering a … Continue reading
December 1, 2009
by Frederick
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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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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
March 24, 2009
by Frederick
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I just found out this afternoon that I was the 1st place winner of a giveaway contest at OMNINOGGIN, so I get to have a free custom banner design from buytemplates.net. (As a side note, I think the links or … Continue reading
