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Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) has just announced that they will be changing their stock symbol to JAVA. I don’t normally bother with any news of the financial sort on this blog, but this change is a bit interesting and is stirring a lot of speculation.
If, like me, you’re wondering if the [...]

Another great list over at Mashable lists different ways to get screen-shots of websites. Here are just few to wet your appetite. These are in the form of Firefox plugins, but they also list some standalone programs and some web based tools to get the job done.
Save as image - an aptly named Firefox plugin [...]

Most programming languages that I know and can think of use conditional tests and comparison operators. This is one of the most basic concepts in programming. A conditional test at it’s most basic form is testing whether a variable’s value is less than, equal to or greater than a constant or known value. You then [...]

The folks at iPhoneSimFree have created software that unlocks the SIM chip on your brand-spanking new iPhone to allow you to register and use it on any network. Boy, that didn’t take long at all. This solution has been reviewed and tested by Engadget.com. The site says that they will be making individual per unit [...]

Today’s Friday song of the day is Rapper’s Delight by The Sugar Hill Gang. I’ve heard this song many, many times before and thought it was just a cheezy old song. The other day, however, I actually paid attention to the lyrics. I literally laughed out loud at some of these lyrics. You should definitely [...]

Most of us have heard that a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, sometimes an example is worth a thousand words. Examples are like pictures in that they give a clear and visible snapshot of something that you are talking about. I am a software engineer and so I blog about programming on occasion. [...]

I did some playing around with the Parody Motivator Generator from Despair, Inc. I came up with this image which is based off of the old line, “The beatings will continue until moral improves.” It uses Donald Trump’s line from his NBC series The Apprentice, “You’re fired!”

I just had this spam comment come across and it breezed by the Akismet filter. Thankfully I have the moderation (human element) filter engaged as well, but this was a funny one so I thought I’d post it.
Hey Everybody!
I’ve been lurking for awhile but this is a really cool forum so I decided to [...]

I had a really good run today; it felt like I was actually working and pushing myself a little. Of course to start out the run my iPod froze up on me. I noticed that after a few seconds following the “Workout beginnning” announcement there was no music. So of course I had to stop [...]