chris @ July 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Free Websites Performance, Availability, Traffic Monitoring
Free website monitoring application. Trying it out as my hoster hasn’t been very reliable lately.
(tags: internet tools web monitoring)
Official Gmail Blog: Fighting phishing with eBay and PayPal
How it works? DKIM, which is based on Domainkeys and publishing your signing policy. Something I wanted to blog, maybe - it’s one of […]
chris @ May 20, 2008 # Comments Off
doctype - Google Code
“Doctype is a Google-sponsored open encyclopedia and reference library for developers of web applications. By web developers, for web developers.” I hope it’s ok for wannabe-webpeople too. Project owner is Mark Pilgrim.
(tags: code css google howto html javascript documentation web development programming reference)
flot - Google Code
“Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library […]
chris @ March 24, 2008 # Comments Off
BLM-1 Lithium-Ion Clone Battery Tests
Olympus Li-Ion battery pack that go in my E-510. Excellent comparison between third-party providers: some are perfectly solid, some downright scary.
(tags: olympus battery photography)
SDRAM, DDR2 and DDR RAM memory upgrades from Crucial.com
I like the “Memory Advisory Tool” — it’s better than what I’ve seen on other sites that sell memory. Ultimately, […]
chris @ January 21, 2008 # Comments Off
Dictionary of American Regional English - Google Book Search
DARE on Google Books. I’ve had a lot of problems accessing more than snippets on Google Books, which I presume has to do with living in Europe and geo filtering. But here even I can see whole pages, wow!
(tags: linguistics dictionary DARE USA dialects)
chris @ December 23, 2007 # Comments Off
Google Mars
Mars, by Google, in gloriously garish rainbow colours.
(tags: maps science astronomy googlemaps google education color)
chris @ December 21, 2007 # Comments Off
Mazaika.com :: Vintage Santa Xmas postcard gallery. Old Soviet postcard collection. Software Solutions for Photo mosaics, Digital Photo and ASCII-Art.
I may be using some of these. They are New Year’s cards, and the Father Christmas-type figure is Grandfather Frost. Fabulous.
(tags: art postcards URSS graphics)
chris @ December 5, 2007 # Comments Off
J. LeRoy’s Evolving Web: Jimmy Wales Grows Them Good and Organic
Stir-fried wikipedia in a Bejing restaurant. This is probably one of the funniest of Chinglish mistranslations in existence. Apparently, 雞樅 is some sort of fungus…
(tags: funny food china language translation wikipedia)
chris @ December 3, 2007 # Comments Off
Linux-looking Themes on Windows XP « Tech by Colin
I received a new laptop at work. Time to beautify the Windows a little bit. I’m anticipating surprised looks, but I’ve become so used to the calmness of the Gnome desktop that I really love the result already.
(tags: windows linux themes desktop gnome)
Tango Patcher 2600 7.08.1 by […]
chris @ December 2, 2007 # Comments Off
TED Talks: African fractals, in buildings and braids
A fantastic 15min talk by the mathematician Ron Eglash about Africa’s geometric heritage.
(tags: mathematics africa fractals education)
chris @ November 29, 2007 # Comments Off
Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark’s clock | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
A special French brand of libertarianism. Of the cultural type.
(tags: article history paris france culture hacking)