Archive for December, 2007
Are you for Roomba?
Last week there was a woot-off. I try not to splurge – woot-offs are dangerous – but they put up a refurbished Roomba at a fairly decent price. My wife and I had just agreed days earlier to save up and buy one to alleviate some of our regular vacuuming, so it had to be [...]
Code Highlighting With Google’s SyntaxHighlighter
This is (mostly) a test post to see how well Google’s SyntaxHighligher works. As you hopefully see below (if your browser supports javascript), it works well. I approve!
<?php
function safe($num) {
// there has to be a smarter way to do this!
// make sure that $num is always above 65
$diff = date("w",$now) + 65;
if ($num < [...]
Basically Silly
10 PRINT “THIS IS THE SONG THAT DOESN’T END”
20 PRINT “YES, IT GOES ON AND ON MY FRIENDS!”
30 PRINT “SOME PEOPLE STARTED SINGING IT NOT KNOWING WHAT IT WAS”
40 PRINT “AND WE’LL CONTINUE SINGING IT FOREVER JUST BECAUSE.”
50 GOTO 10
Stuck. In. My. Head.
Useful Tools
I’m somewhat of a tools guy when it comes to my computing environment. I like apps that make my life easier and extend my operating environment beyond what was originally intended. In my previous job, I was one of the guys writing little scripts to automate annoying tasks. It’s “my thing”. The first time I [...]
Fiddling With UpRight
UpRight, by Otaku Software, is a One-Click file transfer utility, aimed at web developers and anyone else who might need to quickly upload a file to an ftp server without going through the normal upload motions. I browse the Otaku site every few months because their software is, for lack of a better word, nifty. [...]
exactly.
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