I came across an article on BBC talking about advances in health care in the past 60 years. Honestly, 60 years isn’t that long, considering the changes that have occurred were previously unknown to humanity. So, a lot of assumptions about things have to change. Getting in a car accident; getting shot; damage to organs; […]
I’ve been writing a lot of JS lately, and I wanted to take this opportunity to drop some knowledge right here.
Lots of languages have support for some type of for-each-looping. This is great for looping over associative arrays, and even regular arrays, since it’s a bit cleaner than the standard for-loop. Sadly, Javascript doesn’t totally […]
In my eyes, this is a good article about Bill Gates. It’s a little suck-up-y to Gates in a lot of areas, but I really enjoyed one particular quote about halfway through.
Then I met Warren, and I thought, “Oh, wow, this guy isn’t just about buying and selling stocks and businesses. He is thinking about […]
When I read about ICANN’s proposal to let anyone register a TLD (top-level domain; the .com, .net, .edu part), I can’t help but think of the number of systems that check email addresses (or domains in general) for validity, and won’t accept any email address that ends in anything but the few most common TLDs.
It […]
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Ran across this story about sending email via snail.
I hope everyone can find some humor in this, but the Computer Scientist in me finds it awesome. It’s non-deterministic email, via snail — almost a Rube Goldberg machine. This system would give total plausible deniability, “but I sent it last month!”
They clearly love James Dean and Betty Boop — the walls are plastered with pictures — so the place has a real classic American-1950s feel to it. And, it seems, in the 1950s, breakfast was delicious.
I had Donna’s Skillet (served to me by Donna herself), which is
home fries
onions
corned beef hash
scrambled eggs
cheese
Add hot sauce and […]
There’s this idea I’ve had rolling around my head for a while now. I call it the Law of Small Numbers, but it’s not really a law, and it’s apparently not called that either, at least according to Wikipedia.
Basically, it’s that small numbers increase easier than big numbers. It’s an idea that’s become popular with […]
I just forwarded an email asking for an RFP around to the team at Cloudspace, and since I use address book autocomplete, I checked the email addresses very carefully before sending the email. I’ve heard of (and seen) too many instances where someone quickly sent an email, and addressed it to the wrong person. Funny […]
OK. I’ve been running a test where I’ve been attempting to gather Viagra spam into a Gmail mailbox, viagraspamtest@gmail.com
I started the test in mid-May, posting the email address to questionable and shady mailing lists, as well as linking the address in plain text on my blog.
And 6 weeks in, how is it going? Well…it’s not. […]
If you’re talking to someone, you have to pay attention to make sure they’re understanding you. This goes one-on-one, as well as speaking to a group. Communication is two-way.
Saw a nifty feature of meetup.com, a site that gets helps manage group meetings, from programmers to political rallies. I go to a PHP meetup in Orlando […]