Archive for January, 2006

Which Superhero are you?

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Your results:You are Spider-Man

Spider-Man

80%

Green Lantern

60%

Superman

60%

Iron Man

55%

Wonder Woman

52%

Supergirl

52%

Robin

50%

Hulk

35%

Catwoman

35%

The Flash

30%

Batman

20%

You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.

Click here to take the “Which Superhero are you?” quiz…

New Year’s Resolutions for 2006

Monday, January 30th, 2006

OK, so January is almost over. But the Chinese New Year has just begun so cut me some slack. I actually came up with this list earlier, but I’m posting them now. Something about writing your goals down help you accomplish them.

Make $X in net revenue from my business. I’m not going to write down […]

PHP, MySQL, and UTF-8

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

I don’t know what the PHP Web Application Component Toolkit (WACT) is nor have I ever used it but I have found their page on internalization and UTF-8 to be invaluable as I migrate databases, systems, and scripts at work.

PHP WACT’s page on internationalization/character sets/character encoding issues
PHP WACT’s page on UTF-8 and MySQL

Thanks!

ThinkPad Keyboards

Sunday, January 15th, 2006

ThinkPad keyboards in general have always been well received. I’ve used a couple here and there. I recently realized that as good as they are, the ESC key and the function keys are misplaced.
I realized this pretty quickly after triggering the Help in VIM a couple of times.
That’s a touch annoying.

Treo 600 Battery Life

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

The Treo 600 gets incredible battery life — if you turn off the radio. I can’t remember the last time I charged it. At least many many weeks ago. People used to talk about how the early Palms had battery life that measured in weeks. I guess if you’re still thinking about those days, you […]

Digg versus Slashdot

Sunday, January 8th, 2006

I’m a big Internet/information addict. And when I’m bored, I get annoyed that my favorite sites don’t update frequently enough.
This is where Slashdot came in. It doesn’t provide too much in original content (some interviews and Ask Slashdot, I guess) but that OK. It is more of a content/news/interesting link aggregator. with user commentary. Of […]

Ruby on OpenWRT

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

I made passing mention of Ruby on OpenWRT previously and it looks like it garnered some interest. I haven’t had much time to play with it lately, but I figured I can make what I have available so others with more time can play too.
All of this was done and tested against OpenWRT White Russion […]