Google’s scary captcha noises
Ever tried clicking one of those accessibility icons next to “captcha” fields? Here is what I heard when I tried the one on Google’s password-recovery page today:
Add comment October 22nd, 2008
Mood-enhancing earphones
I just got these excellent Sennheiser headphones
Add comment January 25th, 2008
Zen To Done
Zen Habits is an excellent productivity-and-lot-more blog by Leo Babauta. Well, maybe you should not use “lot more” when talking about something “zen”, but sometimes less is more. Or more is less? Anyway, he collected his posts about a simplified version (is simple less or more?) of Get Things Done (and more) and you can get it now as an inexpensive e-book.
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Add comment November 30th, 2007
2007 DC PHP Conference Slides
I attended the 2007 DC PHP Conference few weeks ago. Still working on my notes to present what I learned to others at my company, but at least I can post links to all the presentations I found so far:
- Designing RESTful Web Services
- API Design in PHP
- APC @ Facebook
- Facebook Performance Caching
- Write Beautiful Code
- Rich Internet Applications
- High Performance PHP & MySQL Scaling Techniques and Help, my website has been hacked! Now What?
- PHP and MySQL presentations by Damien Seguy
- Securing PHP with PHPSecInfo and Inspekt
Add comment November 28th, 2007
SphinxSearch Extension for MediaWiki
While helping maintain the New World Encyclopedia, I tried to install the LuceneSearch extension to replace the default MySQL-full-text-based search used by MediaWiki. Since our server did not come with any pre-requisites necessary for compiling and running Java applications, I spent quite some time on it, and still did not get it to work.
All of sudden (hint, hint,) a message came to the mediawiki developers list about a new search extension that uses Sphinx search engine. Installing Sphinx was a breeze! The extension was an initial “request-for-comments” version, so I started working with the author to spruce it up. You can see the results at NWE, MediaWiki.org, and SourceForge.
Add comment October 19th, 2007
Joe’s Goals
Just found a site very similar to what I wanted to make for a very long time. Signup at Joe’s Goals and start tracking your daily goals in a simple, fun, and efficient manner. Plus you can make yourself accountable to the world by publishing a little graph on your website.
Add comment June 15th, 2007
Definition of a snack
A snack is something you eat for no reason.
(Nina, 4)
Add comment June 7th, 2007
How we increased the national talk-time average
Yesterday, our pastor mentioned that an average couple talks only 4 minutes per day. I tried to find that statistic on the Internet and found even worse numbers - some studies apparently indicate that married couples spend only 6 minutes per week in a serious discussion. I decided to put a stop to that and spent at least an our talking to my wife last night. You do the math - or even better - spend that time talking to your loved ones. Be above average!
Add comment May 14th, 2007
Mozy - Free Online Backup
If you need a convenientonline backup, checkout Mozy. It lets you fine-tune when and what to backup. It even has some nice presets so you do not have to hunt for your email folders etc. Once you set it, you can forget about it. Beats uploading files to your own web server or gmail account. Best of all - you get your first two gigabytes free. Actually, if you follow this referral link you will get an extra 256 Mb right away (and I will get an extra Gb for every four people that do that :-))
5 comments May 10th, 2007
Just got Joost!
Thanks to Elaine Vigneault, I got a Joost invite. I will share any extra invites after I make sure my friends are covered. If you would like to be considered, leave a comment here (you will have to provide your name and email address, but the address will not be public.)
4 comments May 3rd, 2007
