Random 4 Mar 2008 10:54 pm
Maybe it has happened to you—it finally happened to me. You open an attachment directly in Outlook Express, edit it, and hit Save. Not Save As…—Save. Good luck trying to find the edited document.
I thought I could find where the document was saved by clicking on the attachment again, hitting Save As…, looking at the [...]
Random 3 Dec 2007 11:34 pm
Even more hair-raising than biking in city traffic is transferring a database-driven website to a new hosting service. At least for me, since I don’t do this sort of thing every day.
It all started Tuesday, when the database server became unavailable. Again. On Wednesday I started researching hosting companies. On Thursday I signed up with [...]
Random 19 Sep 2007 11:44 am
How could I not take note of the fact that the smiley turned 25 today?
[Carnegie Mellon professor Scott E.] Fahlman posted the emoticon in a message to an online electronic bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on Sept. 19, 1982, during a discussion about the limits of online humor and how to denote comments meant to [...]
Random 18 Sep 2007 8:03 pm
We have a low retaining wall made from railroad ties in our front yard that is deteriorating and needs replacing. We’re thinking of stonework this time, and I’m thinking we’ll want to find some Incas to do it for us. I mean, look at the work they do:
Photo by Alexander Fiebrandt at Wikipedia
They may not [...]
Random 18 Aug 2007 2:59 pm
I’ve been sitting on my copy of photo morphing software* for over a year now. Thankfully someone has actually done something interesting with theirs:
A YouTube user has supplied a helpful guide to the art used in the video.
[h/t to Laureeg]
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*There are undoubtedly better ones out there. This one was quite free and therefore very appealing.
Agora 20 Feb 2007 1:31 pm
Captain Kirk to Chekov and Sulu: “Phasers on ‘stun’ …”
It’s not a handheld device … yet. Raytheon’s Silent Guardian™:
From Raytheon promotional video
Your tax dollars at work. William Saletan at Slate reports:
Three weeks ago, the U.S. armed forces tested it on volunteers at an Air Force base in Georgia. You can watch the video on a [...]
Random 14 Feb 2007 1:13 pm
Rollout of TheBook, v.1:
(Happy Valentine’s Day to bibliophiles everywhere!)
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