Category Archives: Techie
Time to Learn Chinese
Dictatorships are bad. Capitalism is good. We learned all that back in 4th grade after reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag in the back of the schoolroom. God bless America, and pass me a sparkler.
The world is not so simple anymore. Continue reading
Actiontec DSL Modem Hacking
So, as you know, I recently upgraded to DSL from Cable. The Actiontec DSL modem provided by Qwest is really cool and provides quite a few features, but the firmware upgrade provided at the company website makes the thing stop … Continue reading
New ISP
If you’ve ever had cable, you know that after your new-customer promotion is done, they about triple your monthly rate, that goes for both cable TV and Internet service. So once we had to start paying around $100/month for our … Continue reading
Editable Web Pages
I’m working on a user-friendly content management system (Wiki-based, for those who care), and I wanted to add a WYSIWIG editor interface, like HTMLArea has, for example. So, I dug through the javascript source code to find out how they … Continue reading
The Bridge-Color Problem
http://www.flounder.com/bridge.htm Here’s an interesting essay describing a particular type of problem we often run into when maintaing other people’s work. There are certain decisions about a project which must be made, but which are not directly related to the technology … Continue reading