so obama finally ponied up his birth certificate. now can trump stfu? there, i used the f word, i'm so cool i can be president now. well, i wasn't born in the usa. people like trump waste our time and intelligence with ass/2 conspiracy absurdities. donald, if you can't tackle […]
Monthly Archives: April 2011
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firefox supports it, so does chrome. but if you try this bit of html in IE 9 - <img src='image.ico' /> - you'll get an X mark where the image is supposed to appear. so microsoft designs the new browser from the ground up, but they skip something so elementary […]
if you use link widgets in your wordpress navigation bar, you may notice that, depending on the theme used, the links are sorted by name and there's no way to change that. a quick and dirty way of rearranging the links order is to prefix &#127; to the link names […]
so amazon's cloud crashes leaving sites stranded for days. then they have no backup other than a snapshot which is characterized as "useless" by amazon itself. and they'll charge customers for the storage of the useless snapshot? sorry if you were affected. but i wouldn't even host this site on […]
now you can surf your favorite adult site on the halal internet. no guilt, it's sanctioned by god. Iran's Plan for Halal Internet.
another big site getting cracked and its private data spilling out. and the so-called experts tell you not to put any personal info on facebook. what difference does that make anymore? wtf are these highly-paid security and network engineers doing at these companies? but don't worry. if things really get […]
if you were google and need to add developers and engineers to your headcount in this tight market, what would you do? easy, just buy a baby company and get the staff as an added bonus. Google Acquires TalkBin, A Feedback Platform For Businesses That’s Only Five Months Old.
i like obama but his fiscal policies are more appropriate for the clinton era when the US was running surpluses. the intervening administration wrecked that fortune. now it's not the time for largess. it's time for fiscal discipline, preferably an extreme one. Is gold rising because America is broke?
to all those who think cloud computing is the panacea for outages, and companies like amazon are bullet-proof. Amazon cloud outage staggers into Day 2 hafass.com suffered no such outage 🙂
as a developer myself i can understand why these payment systems are so ass/2. companies think that hiring more developers or making internal rules and regulations will lead to more robust software. wrong. they hire these people then put pressure on them to crank out products at light speed. what […]