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Gawker, Gizmodo and related sites break in Chrome and Firefox
I have basically given up trying to read any Gawker Media sites. Most of the time, they look like the picture below in both Firefox and Chrome. How do you read a Gawker Media site like Gawker.com or...
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RIP Plazes.com
Every so often I get an email like this: Hi djuggler, Just a quick reminder that Plazes.com is going out of service on July 1. After that, your personal Plazes data (including your account info) will...
View ArticlePreservation of species
It has long been said that to ensure the survival of the human species, we must migrate from Earth. Right now, if something catastrophic happened to our planet, our human race would be extinct....
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Why does Apple make this so confusing?
Goals Get beyond setup so the children can play on their iPods. Sync their iPods through a shared Macbook Air without compromising my wife’s iPhone and iPad settings. Allow the children to Facetime and...
View ArticleThe Crux of the Apple iTunes Problem with Multiple Devices in One Household
This sums it up nicely: Prior to iOS 5, sharing an Apple ID wasn’t really a problem because its main purpose was for purchasing content on iTunes, using it for support purposes and purchasing items on...
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Let the decluttering begin!
I am not a hoarder! I have grandiose dreams, great plans, a vivid imagination, and a vision of the future. Well, maybe I’ve held onto a little too much junk. As horrible as that seems, there are a few...
View ArticleProgrammer/Artist
As a programmer, I often feel like an artist reusing the same canvas over and over and no one ever looks at the painting. As I make modifications and improvements to a program, my previous creation...
View ArticlejqGrid so powerful!
I am loving working with jqGrid. My latest discovery is the ease at which elements on the grid can be changed. For instance, if you want to change the default "View 1 – 10 of 98" you can do it in...
View ArticleQuery of queries reports runtime error
So are you pulling your hair out because your query of queries is returning an error "Query Of Queries runtime error."? The solution is rather simple. In your query that is feeding your QoQ, you...
View ArticlePseudonyms are silly
Those of us in the bowels of the computer industry know the pursuit of anonymity is foolhardy. Then again, we are the ones who know how.
View ArticleWired claims Google Reader killed because RSS delivers news old school
Wired makes a good point in this article but they write from a newscentric view…it reads like someone in "the industry" writing about "the industry" and screams that Wired has lost touch with the...
View ArticleThis NSA thing is old news
Can’t believe I forgot about this! I watched this story with great interest in the wayback. This started in 2003 and was publicly outed in 2006: "the NSA built a special room to receive data streamed...
View ArticleSQL Query Conundrum
Here’s a interesting SQL challenge: Say you have a query returning a result set that in some cases one row cancels out another. For example, let’s say there are 5 columns: A B C D E. One result...
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No, I won’t use your CMS
So I’m doing some ColdFusion research (the Adobe kind not the physics kind) and thought it might be time to bring CFNinja.com back to life (not that it ever had much of a life). I hesitate to turn...
View ArticleA blogger blogs, always
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper. – Kurt Vonnegut Sometimes I hear people say, "blogging is dead" or "I don’t get any visitors...
View ArticleNODE+ unboxing
I won a NODE+! I’ll write more later. Have a client deadline to work on. In the meantime, here’s the video with credits and links below it: CREDITS Variable Technologies NODE+ with +clima and +therma...
View ArticleAnti-rape Shorts
This is a brilliant piece of technology for clothing! As both a flaw and a feature, if the woman becomes drunk, she cannot take the shorts off herself…which will result in some rather wet pants after a...
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