According to The Register article here:
[Special Operations contractor] will, at a minimum, develop Internet-based marketing procedures such as use of Google AdWords and Search Engine Optimization to prioritize search result listing of the applicable websites
What next? Affiliate programs? Cost per action? I know! email submits. Any creatives with landing page ideas?
Here’s a visualization of what [...]
Archives for the ‘General’ Category
Some keywords are going be getting expensive.
Thursday, 17 September 2009
Travelling and Allergies
Thursday, 17 September 2009
Came across this site Allergy Translation Cards. They do a supreme good.
How to get hold of a .gov domain
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
The information is supplied here: http://dotgov.gov/help_qualify.aspx
Good luck!
How do you figure out which side of a car the fuel tank is on?
Friday, 4 September 2009
I have this problem when driving my wife’s car: Why Do Cars Have Fuel Doors on Different Sides
But here’s the kicker. Commenter spewlman advised:
Want to avoid the frustration of not knowing what side your gas tank is on? Car manufacturers actually solve this mystery for you. On your dash is a picture of a fuel [...]
Serpent Rising
Friday, 4 September 2009
Mary Garden writes about her thirst for transcendence, but instead finds mystics and charlatans, who make ordinary human beings look like saints. Serpent Rising 2nd Ed
It is now thirty years since I first set foot in India and felt at last I had come home. From time to time in my now busy life, I [...]
Chrome loveliness
Saturday, 15 August 2009
I just tried to “go back” to the previous page, but still want to retain the current page I’m reading. Middle click on the back arrow did the trick, and opened the previous page on a new tab.
Sweet.
Miscellaneous Notes on CIFS
Wednesday, 5 August 2009
Alfresco uses JNI on Netbios to serve files over CIFS on windows servers,
http://www.codase.com search for win32netbios.c
Uses a combination of
[NetBIOS]-> NCBADDNAME
[NetBIOS]-> NCBLISTEN
[NetBIOS]-> NCBRECV
Also see their JLAN product.
Unfortunately, this is apparently not supported on Vista, Windows Server 2008. Source: MSDN
There seems to be some workarounds documented on the Alfresco wiki Vista And Windows 2008 through firewalling [...]
Bitwise Tests in XSLT
Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Using a combination of floor, mod and div, we can implement bitwise tests in XSLT. I happened to need to do that today. Thanks to the power of Google, and the Mulberry XSLT forums, the following snippet implements XSLT test for 000010
<xsl:comment>
Bitwise test for 00010
</xsl:comment>
<xsl:if [...]
What makes America great?
Tuesday, 4 August 2009
From a BBC Foreign Correspondent, who is leaving the US:
I deplore the superstition and the eating competitions and the tatty dreariness of so much of America, and I note that the new president is also unimpressed by the infrastructure and not a fan of fat but, after more than seven years living here, I am [...]
Plug for a Toowoomba Plumber
Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Tamara from Mark Robertson’s Plumbing did a good job for me sorting out a leak this morning. She did a good job and didn’t overcharge like my last one, so here’s an unsolicited plug. No, they don’t have a web site, but you can look them up in the Yellow Pages.
New Modes of User Interaction – Dan Bricklin
Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Dan Bricklin points to a new generation of applications that will utilize a new mode of interaction with the computer, beyond mice and menus.
In a podcast with Scott Hanselman, Dan also said that it will also affect the way programs are written, similar to the transition from text/console programs to event-driven ones [not his exact [...]
Using patterns to accelerate software development
Friday, 24 July 2009
An Australian company is working on a AusIndustry grant on rapid application modelling.
I’d love to interview these guys on the blog just for some insights they gained from the process.
Printing the current running stack in Python
Friday, 24 July 2009
The traceback module has utility functions for printing the currently running stack, not just tracebacks.
import traceback
import logging
# somewhere in your buggy code
logging.log(1, "".join(traceback.format_stack())
Feynman’s Lectures posted on Microsoft website
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Bill Gates bought and put Feynman’s physics lectures on line. Unfortunately, I couldn’t watch it using Chrome (which has outstanding stability compared to IE8). However, once in a while, I’m prepared to pay the Microsoft Tax, fire up MS IE and watch:
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html
Update: It appears that the site is down at the moment.
XSLT – munging apostrophes
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Escaping escapes can be a near impossible task with XSLT.
Here is the standard form of testing whether a string matches
<xsl:if
test=”countryName=’USA’” >
Name matches
</xsl:if>
What happens if the country name is People’s Republic of China instead?
You can’t use the apostrophe because the single quote is already used to delimit the string.
You can’t use double quotes [...]
Speed reading on the computer screen
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Like any other information junkie, my browser is full of open tabs of material that I would have liked to have read, but simply lost interest or took too long to read. It occurred to me that I would normally read books at a faster pace, but somehow the screen wasn’t conducive for speed reading. [...]
Javascript V8 Engine
Friday, 24 April 2009
A Japanese publication has a very nice writeup about Lars Bak’s V8 engine (in English) Why is Google’s new V8 Javascript Engine so fast – Nikkei Electronics Asia
I even learned new words like “Premonomorphic”
NOEXPAND and WITH SCHEMABINDING
Friday, 24 April 2009
Note to self. If I see another error involving NOEXPAND check these
1) Make sure server is running SQL 2005
2) Make sure the view has WITH SCHEMABINDING in the DDL (i.e. I need to check my upgrade scripts, … in reverse order)
SQLite and Excel as DataSmithing Tools
Thursday, 16 April 2009
Tom Gleeson aka Goban Saor has an interesting perspective on how well SQLite acts as a general table store which can then be used in OLAP and Excel. He describes the SQLite as the “MP3 for databases”, and I think he comes pretty close to the mark on this.
What’s there to stop anyone from [...]
Configuring SPA-2000 for MyNetFone
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
Here’s the configuration page if my memory fails me in the future
https://www.mynetfone.com.au/media/support/downloads/sipura-spa2000/config/config.html