In 2012 the Online Privacy Act was brought fourth to congress…Sigh. I think you mean “forth”.
…this time the streaming of copywritten works…no.
no.
no.
no.
no.
no.
It’s “copyrighted”.
And then there’s all the horrible sentence structures…
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
The author of this petition doesn’t think it’s important enough to be well written.
no.
no.
no.
no.
no.
It’s “copyrighted”.
And then there’s all the horrible sentence structures…
no.
no.
no.
no.
no.
It’s “copyrighted”.
And then there’s all the horrible sentence structures…
Monday, October 11, 2010
I made a star
I unintentionally created this as part of something else I was working on. I liked it so much I decided to keep a copy of it.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
FuelWatch Dashboard Widget
A simple and widget for finding the cheapest petrol station near you.
I've been running this widget on my Mac for longer than a year now and I finally got around to upgrading to Leopard yesterday so I was able to make sure there were no issues in the final release version of Dashcode.
You can download the widget from my website. At this point it isn't anything fancy because I haven't had time to do up a nicer interface for it but that is definitely on the cards.
I've been running this widget on my Mac for longer than a year now and I finally got around to upgrading to Leopard yesterday so I was able to make sure there were no issues in the final release version of Dashcode.
You can download the widget from my website. At this point it isn't anything fancy because I haven't had time to do up a nicer interface for it but that is definitely on the cards.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Site specific problems with Optus ADSL
Ever since we switched to Optus ADSL I have found it to be particularly slow, and in I've found that some websites are really slow, or don't work at all. The three sites I particularly noticed were anz.com which was particularly slow. So slow in fact that my session would always time out by the time I logged into my internet banking. The other two sites, bungie.net and chromasia.com would not come up at all. Last week I discovered another site that wouldn't come up, zooomr.com.
I also noticed a couple of other issues. When browsing photos on flickr.com, I would often find half the images wouldn't load and the ones that did, were very slow to download. MSN Live Messenger would also take a long time to log in. Much longer than I've ever seen before.
Last night I happened to mention all this to my brother-in-law who works in IT support. As I listed the websites that wouldn't work he immediately knew what the issue was. Apparently Optus does something slightly different to other ISPs in the way that it connects you to websites that are run on IIS servers. His suggestionwas to check the MTU setting on my router. If it was set to 1500 he suggested changing it to 1492. If it was already set to 1492, he suggested setting it to 1400. As soon as I got home I logged into my router and checked the MTU setting. Sure enough it was set to 1500. I changed it to 1492 and rebooted the router.
What a difference this made! All the websites I had been having trouble with now work, and everything else is much faster. MSN logs in as quick as I expect it to and photos on flick load almost instantly. It's surprising how much difference one seemingly arcane setting can make.
I also noticed a couple of other issues. When browsing photos on flickr.com, I would often find half the images wouldn't load and the ones that did, were very slow to download. MSN Live Messenger would also take a long time to log in. Much longer than I've ever seen before.
Last night I happened to mention all this to my brother-in-law who works in IT support. As I listed the websites that wouldn't work he immediately knew what the issue was. Apparently Optus does something slightly different to other ISPs in the way that it connects you to websites that are run on IIS servers. His suggestionwas to check the MTU setting on my router. If it was set to 1500 he suggested changing it to 1492. If it was already set to 1492, he suggested setting it to 1400. As soon as I got home I logged into my router and checked the MTU setting. Sure enough it was set to 1500. I changed it to 1492 and rebooted the router.
What a difference this made! All the websites I had been having trouble with now work, and everything else is much faster. MSN logs in as quick as I expect it to and photos on flick load almost instantly. It's surprising how much difference one seemingly arcane setting can make.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
It's a first world problem
Coding Horror: Why Doesn't Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero?
Jef Atwood and Mark Pilgrim before him asked
About what? Until this show up in my feed reader I hadn't even heard of it. So that's the first reason no one gives a crap. They don't know what it is or what it's about.
Another good reason is similar to why most motorists don't care about the engine in their car. They pay someone else to build it and they pay someone else to take care of it. They don't have time to learn how to do either of those things so they pay someone else to do it. Much like I don't have time to write my own operating system so I pay someone else to do it for me. I don't have the time or inclination to learn how to build a computer so I pay someone else to do it.
There is always a way forward. If I need to migrate my data somewhere I can always find a tool to help. The more popular the software I'm using is the more tools will be available to help me do so. Many of these tools will come at a cost, but I'm alread paying someone else to build my hardware and write my software so why would I stop at this point.
Jef Atwood and Mark Pilgrim before him asked
why doesn't anyone give a crap about freedom zero?
About what? Until this show up in my feed reader I hadn't even heard of it. So that's the first reason no one gives a crap. They don't know what it is or what it's about.
Another good reason is similar to why most motorists don't care about the engine in their car. They pay someone else to build it and they pay someone else to take care of it. They don't have time to learn how to do either of those things so they pay someone else to do it. Much like I don't have time to write my own operating system so I pay someone else to do it for me. I don't have the time or inclination to learn how to build a computer so I pay someone else to do it.
There is always a way forward. If I need to migrate my data somewhere I can always find a tool to help. The more popular the software I'm using is the more tools will be available to help me do so. Many of these tools will come at a cost, but I'm alread paying someone else to build my hardware and write my software so why would I stop at this point.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Building a better mousetrap
"...the printed book as a piece of technology has yet to be improved upon."
It would be awesome to be able to search a book.
It would be awesome to be able to search a book.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Need feedback?
How about testing your new service on a blog who's audience primarily uses a browser you don't support yet.
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