Fairly Realistic

November 14th is World Usability Day! I know, I’m a day late. However, I promise that I made usable things yesterday. And the days before. And I promise for days that haven’t even passed yet, I will continue to make usable things. Wow, that is starting to sound more and more like a pledge of […]

Google has yet another rendition of their search engine called Google Code Search. The twist here is that it’s intended for programmers looking for bits of code publicly available on the Internet. Of course, if you’re looking for the latest algorithm for generating serial numbers for certain zipping software, then it’s good for that too. […]

I would feel a little safer looking at these images if I didn’t have a Sony battery in this Dell laptop… on my lap. Of course, I could use my Powerbook but it has a Sony battery as well. My Powerbook battery was already recalled once when I first got it. I have to check […]

There’s a new MVNO in town, Helio. I read about Helio a few months ago in a Wired magazine. It’s a joint venture between the guy who started EarthLink and SK Telecom (Korea). The promise is that the phone won’t suck and will actually use current technology. The US mobile market is years behind the […]

Everyone keeps asking me what the heck Web 2.0 means. I think I can answer it. Or at least that’s what I thought when I started writing. After about two minutes of thinking about it, I realized that I could not fully explain it, of course, since Web 2.0 is something and nothing all at […]

We have a sexy and fast Dell 1U server downstairs in the rack that we’re using a development server for a new product. Just for kicks, I wanted to install an SSL certificate on the machine so that we could visit the server securely in a browser. After a few Google queries this magical page […]

Wonderful. Another zero-day exploit for we Windows users. Makes my previous post about Apple so much sweeter. I can’t wait to go home to my Powerbook

Apple Computer is having a birthday on April 1st! This is no April fools joke. Apple Computer is going to be 30 years old! There are a lot of people out there doing something special for Steve Jobs to thank him for his contribution to computing. I’ve seen a few sites pop up such as […]

Google came out with a web page creator a few weeks ago but after the first few thousand people signed up a waiting list started. I, of course, signed up as soon as I could not because I really need another website but just because I wanted to play with something new. This morning my […]

March Network Admin Madness has started! Here’s an email from my buddy’s mom’s network admin:
Thursday, March 16, 2006 11:03:54 AM
From: [REMOVED]
Subject: March Madness & the Internet
To: ALL_EMPLOYEES
FYI:
With the NCAA Basketball tournament starting today, the Internet may be
"slow". Millions of people around the world may be watching streaming
videos of the tournament slowing everyone else down.
Thank […]