Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 15th, 2008
Michael J. Schmitz posted two comments on my last post, about celebrities and programming languages although his comments included how Paris Hilton should read his blog about climate change so she could save her hotels. His idea for solving global warming entails a fleet of boats spraying frozen saltwater and cold air on glaciers […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 7th, 2008
Yes, it’s one of THOSE lists.
Edit - Ruby on Rails and ASP.NET aren’t languages: I did know that. Apologies - I added these last and didn’t update the post title. ‘Kermit isn’t really a celebrity’ - thank you to those who pointed out that HTML isn’t a language, but I thought the hint in […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 3rd, 2007
This is a trick vulnerability I learnt about from a talk I went to by Rasmus Lerdorf called ‘Exploring The Broken Web’. He took delegates on a 30 minute whirlwind tour of security vulnurabilities on the internet, specifically what can be done with XSS combined with a bit of social engineering.
He only briefly skimmed on […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 2nd, 2007
waterfall-abseiling
Originally uploaded by The Feds
We went canyoning in the Blue Mountains last weekend. It was amazing. We put on 5mm wetsuits (thick) and followed a stream down through a canyon: jumping into rockpools backwards, sliding down rocks and finally we abseiled down a 50 foot waterfall.
We did it with High n Wild in Katoomba. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 13th, 2007
Possibly the best/worst web innovation I’ve ever experienced is StumbleUpon. Once you start hitting the little green button you can’t stop. You come across a few of those ‘free movie download’ sites that aren’t free and sites by bad designers trying to promote themselves as good designers, but you don’t care. You hit the friendly […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 19th, 2007
Sitting in the sushi bar the other night I was furiously trying to use my new phone’s ‘Barcode Scanner’ software to scan the barcode in from a can of beer in front of me. It didn’t work. According to my girlfriend it wasn’t exactly my finest moment, but on the bright side I’ve now […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 17th, 2007
Sushi in world square, sydney
Originally uploaded by The Feds
The sushi bar Went to the sushi place in world square with laura
