Speedtest
According to digg, Speedtest.net made some changes: Cool. (Thanks to Don MacAskill for hosting this speedtest.)
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ora-code
A clever site I found is ora-code.com. Basically you just type the ID of your Oracle error as the subdomain and it jumps you to the answer. Here is my latest error.
Reading too much…
“Sara would read anything you handed her…She read upon waking, sitting on the toilet, stretched out in the backseat of the car…If there was nothing else she would consume all the magazines and newspapers in the house—reading, to her, was a kind of pyromania—and when these ran out she would reach for insurance brochures, hotel […]
Reading my height
I got my kitchen closet shelving today. (It’s actually a coat closet, but I’m turning it into a kitchen one which says something about my priorities.) In about 3rd grade or so, we had to write down a self-description. The teacher gathered the cards, read them, and the class would try to guess who it […]
Gizmodo should stick to gadgets
It always annoys me when Gizmodo writes about digital photography. Mostly because they get almost nothing right. Case in point: their article on today’s Lexar UDMA CF cards, which has three egregious errors. First, I would believe that CF at PIO-5 (aka 133x) is already close to SDHC’s theoretical max speed and faster than any […]
I’m a simple guy
Because I haven’t moved in yet, there is a dearth of good books at my place. In light of that, I finally picked up a Redbook. No, I don’t mean I’m interested in how to find my inner sex goddess, I mean I wanted to see what IBM’s developer tech support has to say. This […]
True Trucker
Toyota ultimately decided to pursue customers it calls “true truckers.” True truckers aren’t ordinary pickup owners; rather, these men are the Platonic ideal of truck-driving authenticity. They might work on the ranch or the construction site; they might fish for bass every weekend. “They’re the taste makers, the influentials,” Ernest Bastien, a vice president of […]
Costco camera thought of the day
I noticed recently at Costco that they’re selling the Canon Rebel XTi with 18-55mm and the Nikon D80 with two lenses kit. That’s silly. The D80 + 2 lenses (28-70 and 70-300) cannot compete against the Rebel XTi (+ 18-55) in a store like that. For one thing, they’re the same 10 megapixels. The D80 […]
Clever HTTP
I was looking at FirePHP today, trying to figure out what the point is, because the screenshots they keep directing me to are a joke. Here is a better summary: Basically it is allows PHP scripts to send debugging (or profiling) information to Firefox’s Firebug without having the write to the page itself. How it […]
paperjam and treekiller
At work one of the printers is named “paperjam” and the other is “treekiller.” I printed out my stuff on treekiller.