Archive for June, 2004

Nostalgia

Wednesday, June 30th, 2004

A 3 GHz processor doesn't actually run exactly 3 billion Hz, but maybe 3.014 GHz or something close.

Anything less than 50-100 MHz isn't really given any attention.

It's funny to me, that my first computer – already capable of running games and a multitasking operating system – ran on a 7.14 MHz processor.

Today, that clock speed [...]

The New Look

Monday, June 28th, 2004

This is the fruit of a couple of days of labor.

Most of the work went on behind the scenes. I threw out my entire stylesheet (which is basically the entire design) and started from scratch.

Those of you on Internet Explorer will most likely notice that the site looks like crap.

That's because you are using an [...]

The End

Monday, June 28th, 2004

I stayed up until 00.30 last night with Anna, to watch the very last episodes of Angel.

That means we have watched everything Joss Whedon has done as a director.

That's:

7 seasons of Buffy (7×22 episodes)
1 season of Firefly (12 episodes)
5 seasons of Angel (5×22 episodes)

That's 276 episodes of an average of 43 minutes.

That's 197 hours. A [...]

Digital Rights Management Speech

Monday, June 21st, 2004

Digital Rights Management (DRM) is what the record and movie companies want to build into your computer, your iPod (already there), your VCR and your DVD recorder to control what you can and can not do with the music and movies you pay money for.

They would like to prevent you from copying the music onto [...]

Web Programming Hints Vol. 1.

Saturday, June 19th, 2004

When writing something that uses POST forms rather than GET forms, you often leave people on a page that was meant to receive POST data and save it.

If a user then want to refresh the page, they will then get the warning you can see in the above image, or some similar warning.

If the user [...]