A coworker recently bought an iPad and I had a chance to play around with it for a bit. It’s a nifty device, and like any other geek I had fun messing around with it – c’mon, it’s a new toy! That being said though, I do not see myself getting one any time soon. [...]
Well, it’s been a while since I’ve had the time (and I suppose inclination) to update things. What with one thing after another, I’ve either been too busy or too tired to post. But it’s been a moderately quiet day – and I feel like putting something up I’ll save other posts for later (posts [...]
I use Chrome exclusively at on my home computer – have done so ever since it came out. It’s blazing fast, I love the search-in-address-bar feature, and it’s quite stable. Plus, with the newly implemented extensions capabilities, it can be just as full-featured as Firefox. I still use the Firefox+noScript combination at work though – [...]
Holy smokes, I just noticed that the spam count has skyrocketed – over 600+ spam comments caught this month alone! It would appear that spammers don’t take holiday breaks – December 25-26 (depending on which timezone you happen to be in) has Akismet catching well over 100 spam comments. Spammers need to get a life, [...]
My new place doesn’t have any real windows. Rather, the 2 rooms have glass sliding doors that open up onto a small balcony. The kitchen has a tiny little window that’s more to help the air circulate than to let in any light. It’s certainly not intended to be used as window to look out [...]
A new kind of search engine just launched today. Dubbed a “computational knowledge engine”, it leverages Mathematica, an extremely powerful technical computing software. I played around with Mathematica very briefly while in university, but math has always been beyond my ken and my experience with the software was very akin to that of someone gingerly [...]
Last night while troubleshooting Meg’s computer, I learned that Hotmail does not appear to work in Chrome (as of build 1.0.154.43). You are able to log on to Windows Live, and view your inbox, but are unable to click on any of the messages. That is rather bizarre, and I don’t know whether the [...]
?????????????? Yay – I’m finally able to type in Japanese on WordPress! I wasn’t able to do so when I was writing about my Kusatsu experiences because of character encoding issues. Every time I tried writing any Japanese characters, they would display as question marks (??????) However, after searching around (yay for Google), I found [...]
