Pun Intended Consequences

Rocky Balboa is back to his roots in this last movie. The boxing champion of Philadelphia is back in the old neighborhood, looking for meani...

Just ask Malaysian ladies: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4802796.stm .

Sometimes when I'm teaching kids at my mom's tutorial, I get this feeling that teaching a kid something is a lot like programming a ...

And it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I finally dove into the Ecma C# language specification document, for lack of any better ...

For when I get around to installing it: (This is from the Slashdot article Firefox 2 Downloads Top 2 million in 24 hours .) Annoyance...

Here's something I've been meaning to talk about. Came across this comment in an MSDN blog yesterday. The blogger, Rick Schaut, is ...

OK, I know I said I'd upgrade to IE7 later, but I seriously couldn't resist the temptation -- especially since I have nothing to los...

Eid day yesterday was great. I think Bangalis really know how to turn in a good Eid party, if they're in the mood. Some friends got hol...

Firefox 2 is coming out in a few hours, but I'm really very satisfied with 1.5. I read though that 1.5 will soon have a minor update ...

What this would do is something like what POPFile does for email clients like Thunderbird or Outlook or whatever: automatically categorise i...

Read Dan Simmons' Ilium and Olympos a couple of months ago, but haven't gotten round to talking about them till now. First of all...

(Interesting note: just found out that the Cochrane behind the famous Cochrane-Orcutt method was at Monash, http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/...

Here's a VBScript script which runs in the Windows Scripting Host and shows you how long your computer has been running: strComputer = ...

UPDATE 9 Sep 2010: Did something I've been meaning to do for a while and wrote up an awesome wiki intro for the Live Word Count script i...

This post has been due for several days now. Been doing more research into Office 2003's XML file formats. The primary port of call for ...

In all the furore over my new and continually-evolving design I've been neglectful of my Sparklines code. Well, the good news is I'v...

Wheeling Round and Round Finished Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World and it was a whopper. The story itself is 782 pages. Not the l...

After a lot of high-flying coding trying to get cookies to work (to remember which user has seen which posts and/or comments) and at the sam...

After what seems like an eternity with the old ready-made style, have finally gotten down and dirty with Blogger's internals. The inspir...

Set up Thunderbird to handle my Gmail account as well as the ISP-provided POP3 account. Works great and, what's more, allows me to sign ...