Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Over the last few days I completely redid my resume. Last time it has been edited was over 5 years ago. The newly minted version is available right here. If you know of any consulting/employment opportunities, don't hesitate to contact me.
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
While using Imeem.com, a free music streaming site, I noticed that the autoplay feature in their playlist as well as autosuggest were not working. It turns out that Imeem requires "ads.imeem.com" domain name to be accessable. At the same time OpenDNS is blocking that domain because of adware. I sent ...
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
Murray Kucherawy of SendMail has kindly taken over the editing of my ARF drafts. He just posted another version (-07), which you can find here. You can find all previous versions here.
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
Just something strange I saw on a drive this past week and thanks to the magic of Google Street view you can see it too. If you zoom in on the house below, you will see a five cornered star smack on the chimney. If anyone knows what it is ...
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
An interesting thing that I ran into recently - it seems that while PayPal and Amazon Payments are registered on a state by state basis as "money transmitters", Google Checkout is not. Of course for filing complaints that makes things harder since there is no clear regulatory body responsible. That ...
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
For a few years, Google Book Search has provided PDF downloads of public domain books. The books came with a page listing some guidelines that Google asked people to follow and the same guidelines are listed in their Google Book Search help center. The old guidelines were as follows:
The new ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
About six months ago, my trusty Sony VAIO laptop died - a victim of the infamous DC power jack problem. I ended up building a new desktop (AMD X2 5000, 2 GB of RAM, two hard drives in RAID configuration, lots of fans). In the process, I also took the ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
In one sentence:
Provide an easy to use tool that solves a persistent problem.
That was my experience recently with a backup solution for Linux - while there were many open source and free tools out there, a commercial easy to use tool with a low cost was the one that one ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Here is a short article I wrote for OperaWatch on Google's new browser.
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
(For updates click here)
Earlier today I received a phone bill from our phone company (Cavalier). To my suprise they have imposed a new fee of $2.95 called "Energy Recovery Charge" which is:
A charge to compensate the company for rapid increases in energy expenses, fuel expenses associated with network maintenance, and ...
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