Archive for July, 2008


21Jul2008

The guys that brought you the hilarious Mac or PC music video are up to it again. This time they produced a music video about three guys with mullets, jeri curls, spandex and translucent jackets driving around the Bay Area in an “Invisible Ride“. Enjoy… or be offended. Whichever. * Click through to the site [...]




17Jul2008

So what is The Leviathan? And even more importantly what are the Leviathan Chronicles? Well, in short it’s a podcast. But it is so much more. When you first go to the website you are greeted with an extremely compelling user interface that takes you into another world. Once you read the description of what [...]




14Jul2008

Does Amazon know what I am looking for more than the search phrase that I just typed in? Perhaps… but perhaps not so much. I was recently searching around Amazon for a few separate classes of items. The first thing I searched for was headphones and headsets with microphones. Following that I decided to turn [...]




11Jul2008

So I was doing some research on MySQL database security and wanted to do a quick search for two runtime configuration parameters. I did a search for –secure-auth and –old-passwords on google. Do you think I saw any results concerning MySQL database flags? Nope. I saw two hits. One was a YouTube video of Dr [...]




11Jul2008

This is Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell from his album Rebel Yell. Last night a little dancer Came dancin’ to my door Last night a little angel Came pumpin cross my floor She said honey baby You got a license for love And if it expires Bring hell from above because In the midnight hour she [...]




9Jul2008

Build Seamless, Fully Functional Forms with No Coding Collis Ta’eed provides and excellent tutorial on using the Wufoo site to generate web forms with no coding. There are lots of pictures and code samples. JDK 6 Update 7: Java VisualVM Included Geertjan Wielenga gives an honest review of the latest Java Development Kit’s new features, [...]




8Jul2008

The Problem I recently had a problem. I am a software developer and as such I use source control. For this purpose I generally prefer Subversion. I have been keeping my source repositories on an external drive with the intention to back them up to another secure location periodically (yeah, that never happens). I looked [...]




7Jul2008

This is a hilarious manualist/violin quartet produced by the same guy. He plays two separate violin parts and then two parts on his hands (hand farting). Now that is talent!




7Jul2008

I have recently discovered Hulu. I’ve not been much of a sit down and watch T.V. person for quite some time. I work from home so if there is a choice between being productive or “vegging” out in from of the television I usually end up back in front of my computer. The advent of [...]