Wow. It appears that this is the Blog of the day at GeniusEngineer.com. I’ve never visited the site before, but I’m flattered by being chosen just the same.
Oh and while I’m writing about watching video files on my TV, I’ve been thinking of getting myself a tape drive. Sure, I’ll use it to actually, finally, back up all the important things I have littered around my handful of machines. Having established a backup routine at work, I’ve gotten to thinking. How bad [...]
I don’t gush about it very often, but I love my 12″ Powerbook. Since I got it this past March, it has been my primary machine for both work and home. And other than wishing that there was a 1GB memory module out for it and grumbling that I’ve lost one of the rubber footies [...]
Macromedia Central provides a safe environment for developers to deploy occasionally-connected applications. Using Macromedia Central, developers can create an application and give it away for free. Or they can sell it to end users using the Try/Buy framework that is part of Central. Source: Macromedia – DevNet : Macromedia Central: How it Works I’ve had [...]
Well, I forgot to mention it, but I emailed Google awhile back about their rejecting my site for Google ?AdSense. They got back to me and let me in the club, which is demonstrated by the skyscraper ad to the right. So far, I seem to be on the road to earning free hosting for [...]
What I’ve discovered, though, is that my desktop PC, for standard development tasks, is astoundingly faster than my work laptop for just about everything.Source: rc3.org | Developing on my game box Personally, though I really do want a new PowerMac G5 I can’t see myself investing much in desk-anchored computing anymore. Not since I got [...]
Amazon.com Syndicated Content is delivered in RSS format. RSS is a standard format (in XML) for delivering content that changes on a regular basis. Content is delivered in small chunks, generally a synopsis, preview, or headline. Selected categories, subcategories and search results in Amazon.com stores now have RSS feeds associated with them, delivering a headline-view [...]
Privacy issues aside (for the moment), there is a request header called “FROM”, RFC 2616 s14.22 describes it. Now, it does say it should, if given, contain an Internet e-mail address for the human user who controls the requesting user agent. SHOULD isn’t MUST though, so what putting the user’s homepage there? It also says [...]
Hi there! My name is Leslie Michael Orchard. I'm a serially enthusiastic, caffeine-dependent {web,mad,computer} scientist and {tech,scifi} writer working for the Mozilla Corporation and living near Ann Arbor / Detroit in Michigan.
