Month: August 2007
Ahah 1 min read

Air Guitar Championships

In a few days (September 5-7, 2007) Finland will be holding the Air Guitar World Championships. WTF, you say? I've just spent half an hour on Youtube watching Air Guitar videos, and boy I laughed hard:) Basically, it's playing the guitar, except you have no guitar. And they make local, regional, national and eventually World Championships with this! If you…

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Headbanging link of the day: MetalAd creates a skyscraper-like banner from your heavy metal tastes (as stored by Last.fm). (my metal ad for instance). The generating PHP script is even open-sourced.

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Something I learnt today: "Be conservative in what you do; be liberal in what you accept from others", which is the Robustness Principle, also known as Postel's Law. So true.

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Code 2 min read

What Chmod ? Symbolic to Octal Notation Perl Script

Have you ever "ls -l" a file or directory, watch its "-r-x–s-wT" symbolic notation and ask to yourself: "what the hell is that chmod ?". This was the case for me several times today, so before I spent 1 minute on thinking about the notation, I decided to spent 5 minutes on a quick Perl script. What Chmod converts those…

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Hey, funny. Sony digital cameras save photos with a pattern name starting from DSC00001.JPG and incrementing. What do you think Sony users shoot for their first picture ? Boobies! :) Via delicious/popular and a very old post from Engadget.

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My Life 1 min read

Looking for a Registrar

A call to nice readers: I'm looking for a registrar (just registrar, no hosting needed) which will let me completely manage my DNS, i.e. add custom DNS records (A, MX, CNAME, whatever) for an unlimited number of domains and subdomain. Which will also accept Paypal. Does anyone reading this blog have such a registrar ?

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Web 6 min read

Review of a Freelance WordPress Designer

Let Adii self introduce him: "I'm a freelance web designer & strategist from Cape Town, South Africa and I specialize in WordPress designs. I'm currently finishing my Honours in Business Strategy and I would love to combine traditional business models with the new principles and philosophies of Web 2.0." When Adii asked me to review his site, I was pretty…

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