Last week I stumbled across the “AppFog OpenStack Birthday Contest” via Twitter. I’d been quietly following AppFog’s progress since I received a PHPFog beta invite a year or two ago. At the time I...

When rstarcraft.info was launched a little over a week ago, it was accompanied by both a Greasemonkey script and a Chrome extension. This was made very simple thanks to the fact that the structure...

The History: Those of you who know me know that I’ve become a bit obsessed with this game called Starcraft 2. Combining two of my favorite internet pass-times I’ve been spending a lot of my free i...

For one hour on Saturday March 28 at 8:30pm, switch off for our planet earth. If it’s a clear night, go outside, check out the night sky you’ll be surprised what you can see. Earth Hour 2009 Fro...

So what does any self respecting programmer do when he finds himself awake at 2am after Thanksgiving? Do some coding of course! In this case I decided to finish up that holiday shopping budget I ...

UPDATE: The Terms of Service have been updated as of September 4th 2008 to state that you retain the rights and copyright on all things displayed with or through “The Service”. The EULA is no longe...

The Pradipta 416 caused all of this in less than 24 hours. This is why I love the internet. https://web.archive.org/web/20080720235648/http://groups.google.com/group/pradiptas-rolodex For the f...

What do you do when you have a GPS receiver, the internet, and a penchant for treasure hunting? You go Geocaching! Geocaching is a game where you quite literally use multi-million dollar satellites...

After writing my first post describing Road Runner’s annoying practice of redirecting all invalid DNS requests to their own advertising laden search page I opted out. I figured that would be the en...

Anyone who has ever spent any significant amount of time working with an Oracle database has probably seen a ORA-600 or ORA-07445 “exception encountered: core dump” trace file. Unfortunately, when...