To anticipate and prevent
Recently, we’ve had an upwelling of spam at the office. The most problematic component of which is the fact that all the text is gibberish with only the images being “Spam”. If your spam filter doesn’t have an OCR plugin, it’s not going to do a very good job stopping the spam — which is…
I’d like to introduce yet another of my half ass’d concepts of “regular programming”. This one is motorcycle related (::small cheer::). Basically in my random wanderings around wherever the hell it is I’m wandering, I’ve found a few nice/interesting/challenging/etc rides. Generally they aren’t too long, just short trips that I think are worth while that…
Words can’t even begin to describe the amazing stupidity of CNBC in their recent segment on “Money trend: Mac vs PC”. Gizmodo has an excellent article (with embedded video) about the segment, titled “CNBC Is Ridiculous: Macs Come With Photoshop, PCs Need $600 Extra to ‘Perform As Well As a Mac’“. Basically CNBC decided that…
Over the years as I’ve spent more time on my cell phone for data access (markedly more since I got a company phone), I’ve wondered why more websites don’t have a mobile version. Of course there are a few big companies that have mobile versions (like Google) that are basically as good as their regular…
Ok, for those of you that don’t know, I play Planetside. It’s an MMOFPS and I wrote a review about it all of 2 weeks ago (and have blogged about it numerous times). As previously noted, I’ve been playing the game on and off for all 5 years it has been out. John has been…
The original Planetside box art. Every serious video gamer has a game that is truly their favorite. Not just a game they enjoy, but a game that they get completely engrossed in. Even though they’ve played the game a ton of times previously, they’ll go back to it sooner or later and be as addicted…