Archive for October, 2005
Safari’s Date()
A coworker and I wrote a flurry of Javascript recently for Firefox and IE. Soon afterwards I switched my work machine to a G4 Powerbook and I wanted to make our code run in Safari. I came across this funny bug.
Normally, this code:
Date(”10/31/2005 09:30:00 AM”);
gives you a nice Date object initialized to […]
Posted: October 31st, 2005 under OSX.
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Pumpkin Stencils!!
In time for your weekend pumpkin carving, Zombie Pumpkins has a fantastic selection of geeky and traditional stencils. It makes me think that I should buy a couple of pumpkins so I can carve one Mario and one Luigi. Maybe some WoW characters too.
Posted: October 25th, 2005 under out of doughnuts ramblings.
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Flock Preview
Flock is out now and my impression is that they are on the right track. Some people feel that Flock is nothing more than a VC funded bag of buzz words. They’ve got tagging, social bookmarking, blogging and Firefox all mixed together and at a first glance it could look like a desperate attempt to […]
Posted: October 24th, 2005 under Uncategorized.
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Edonkey’s future
In A Hard Ride for eDonkey they talk about the explosive dominance of eDonkey and it’s current situation after the grokster ruling:
eDonkey, which had roared past Grokster to become the most popular service in the world. In fact, while few people over 30 have heard of eDonkey, file-sharing on its network accounts for more than […]
Posted: October 18th, 2005 under out of doughnuts ramblings.
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Gamer Language
This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while. If you are a WoWzer or any MMO you should get a kick out of it. It’s a little subtitled slideshow done as an animated gif.
This is a really entertaining example of the language that’s evolved around online gaming. Some of what’s […]
Posted: October 17th, 2005 under warcrack.
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