Monthly Archive for July, 2002
william wu has a good collection of riddles, mostly from interviews for hi-tech positions. the questions may seem impossible initially until you start to think outside of conventional problem-solving methods. mathematical skills in probability required in some of the riddles. have fun!
luminous landscape tells you how to say “no” to digital slr if you’re itching to buy one. unlike leicas, medium formats or 35mm slr, digital slr has very high depreciating value.
another patent mess might be hitting the industry. iso standards body will withdraw jpeg as a formal standard if forgent networks continues to assert its patent claim on the graphic format. i wonder if greedy companies will ever learn that trying to earn money using patent claims, on widely adopted standards, are futile efforts and brings bad publicity. in 1999, unisys’ tried to claim user license fee for the gif graphic format. the result was the burn-all-gifs campaign, where gif files were banished from websites, replaced with graphic files in png format.
make your websites (and your blogs as well) more accessible. choose your weblogging tools from the blogging software roundup.
actress and tv host sharon au has her own blog now (almost). i wonder when she’ll start to blog personally.
computer security celebrity, howard schmidt predicts that “zero-day viruses and affinity worms” will bring about armageddon to our electronic world. according to securityfocus, it is nothing more than a demented prediction to justify his job of flying around america for security “talks”.
djs are now turning away from turntables to the ipod at the manhattan apt club. however playing heavy metal ballads will result with immediate expulsion from club. ebay is a good source for lawyers to gather evidence.
read the first issue of superman in action comics issue 1.
were you ever curious about when you’ll die? take the death test.
64x is the fastest speed that your cdrom can go. an experiment showed that cd-roms will explode if they are spinning too fast in a cd-rom drive. (don’t try this at home!)
with some clever usenet posts, you can create interesting ascii art with the help of google’s usenet group archives. “travel” is the other keyword.
here’s a funny flash parody of apple’s switch campaign to get pc users to switch to mac.
gutterball and fly the copter are addictive games made from macromedia’s products. amuse yourself if you’re bored at work, home or school.
for weblogger addicts, post your blogs from your mobile phone using wap with wapblogger. it supports blogger and livejournal.
have you ever wanted to see britney exposed? searching through amazon’s list of product can be as easy as google with amazon light.
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