October 2005 Archives

• airliners.net - Aircraft Data and History

• Standalone QuickTime Player - It's about time, Apple.
• Paper Airplanes - some really cool designs
• How-to: VMware player modification - I need to try this.

• Ultimate Packer for eXecutables - UPX is a free, portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats.
• List of Printers Which Do or Don't Print Tracking Dots - Good to know it you are going to print money...
• Seven Questions Employees Should Ask Before Joining a Startup - Interesting read, hits some good points (for those interested)
• Abandoned Photography and Urban Exploration - Some great shots of abandoned buildings

Yet another funny cartoon. I could almost see this in a south park episode.

• Tequila Tasting 101 - Everything you wanted to know about tequila (thanks zz)

• The window.onload Problem - Solved! - work with DOM before images are loaded improving client side responsiveness
• Hanlon's Razor - Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
• Web Sudoku - quite an addicting game

• The Airline Screening Playset - Hours of Fun!

I got this little cartoon about a week ago. I looked at it again and decided it was blogworthy.

Enjoy.

• data: URI image encoder - This form will allow you to generate a valid data: URI from a file on your computer or from a web site.

• Disable trigger with Postgresql 7.4.x? - because postgres is dumb to not have a real command to do it.

After all the speculation that was floating around the internet the past few days, the "big" announcement today was just that they were going to work together on a toolbar. Big deal.

In other news, has anything really happened with the Sun/Microsoft partnership?

This post on ars does a good job talking about it.

I still think that the network will become the computer, but this does nothing to advance that.

There has been a lot of buzz the last few days about Google developing an online office suite, perhaps with Sun?

Maybe this is related?

I've been thinking about this a bit lately as well. The thing that I come back to is the idea of someone else controlling my data. A partnership between two larger corporations helps, but I think we need to get more diverse than that. I think that the only way people will feel secure is if their data is distributed in many places--both split up into pieces, and replicated between owners--and without the keys, you won't be able to figure out where it is stored or how to decript it.

I think we will see the network as the computer, like it or not, being the next big application of the Internet. What would it take for you to move?

• mod_rewrite Cheat Sheet - quite handy
• Wikipedia eats Google - Wikipedia is a PageRank monster.

• 7 Habits of Highly Successful People. - best. list. ever.