Category: Geeking

They say that the nice thing about Open Source software is that all the users are looking at the source checking it for bugs, so it will be higher quality than closed-source software. Heh. I have proof that people don’t read the code they are installing. Since the earliest widely-distributed releases of Cricket, there’s been…

I just noticed a really cool feature of Gmail. This is subtle, so hang in there with me… It, like other mail programs attempts to automatically maintain your address book for you by adding entries for addresses in mail you send. When you reply to someone who’s e-mail arrived without a real name, just an…

I use Firefox, and I like the little search box thingie in the upper left. I decided it might be fun to figure out how it works by making a search plugin for the website SamSpade.org. Sam Spade looks up whois data and other interesting things about websites, and I find myself using it from…

This guy arranged for thousands of email messages to be sent to his Gmail account at once, and surprise, surprise! It fell over. What a jackass. One way to know for sure he’s a jackass is the theory about compression and RAID. First, Gmail doesn’t use RAID. It uses the Google Filesystem. It is like…

First the good news: Firefox 0.9.1 for Win32 fixes my crashing problems. (So all you Mozilla zealots that found this page last time I said something about Firefox, please don’t spam me.) The bad news is that Firefox 0.9 was a crashy mess, and it stomped my icons such that my HTML files that I…

There must be something in the chemical they use to deodorize urinals that makes you smarter, because every time I have a hard programming problem and take a break to take a pee, I come up with the answer.

Check out these two funny posts: The Mac is a harsh mistress … and Linux is your psychotic ex. For the record, my computing environment is as follows: Windows XP on a laptop with SSH and PPTP (depending…) over 802.11 to get connected to work. The VNC viewer gets me in touch with a bunch…

Google’s Gmail is pretty cool. In fact, I’m using it as my primary user interface for my personal mailbox right now. Now I’m trying to figure out how to make mailto: links result in a jump to the Gmail compose screen. The first step is getting Windows to turn “navigate to a mailto: link” into…

This is the coolest keychain tool ever.

I currently live in California. It is not considered a “key battleground state” for the presidential election. Both parties have essentially conceded the electoral votes to Kerry. As long as Californians as a whole vote the way everyone expects them to, Democrats in California can afford to ship some of those votes off to other…