http://euri.ca/blog it's a blog Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:37:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Super Simple Life Tracker is a bit of code that merges together RSS feeds into a nice little sidebar. http://euri.ca/blog/2010/04/12/new-code-super-simple-life-tracker/ Congrats NeverBored Studio on releasing ThreadBound. http://euri.ca/blog/2009/06/17/neverboreds-threadbound/ Recently I read a proposal for a NSFW (not safe for work) tag, and I liked the idea for a few minutes but I've disliked it ever since. The most-discussed problem with a <nsfw> tag is the cultural specificity of what's safe and unsafe for your work environment, for ... http://euri.ca/blog/2009/06/14/nsfw-tag-considered-harmful/ Casinos love guys with systems. Jeff Atwood and Ted Dzubia both hate Swoopo, so it's roughly as bad as PHP. A quick overview: "auctions" start at $0.00 and each bid raises the price by pennies, the time remaining in the auction by 10 seconds and costs the bidder 75 cents ... http://euri.ca/blog/2009/05/27/trying-to-game-swoopo-dagnabit/ While comments were on, this blog received 43000 spam comments, and 2 real ones. Now that Ultrasaur is part of the BizSpark program, I have a fully legal copy of Quickbasic 4.5 realizing the dreams of my 10 year old self. http://euri.ca/blog/2009/03/25/fun-facts/ Both my readers are probably aware, all my mental energies are going into Ultrasaur Records Management. http://euri.ca/blog/2009/02/10/working-on-ultrasaur/ History (and Karl Rove) have judged him, and it seems George Bush's legacy will be one of too little action and too much reading. According to an article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, the 43rd president reads an average of over 500 hours every year (that's 12-13 weeks of ... http://euri.ca/blog/2008/12/27/bush-too-cerebral-for-his-own-good/ Note to self, Google Chart API is awesome. http://euri.ca/blog/2008/11/08/wow-google-chart-api/ The Government of Ontario runs a fantastic service to monitor the state of traffic jams on the 401: COMPASS Freeway Traffic Management System. So the obvious question becomes, when should I drive home? Step 1: Get some data First I ran a cronjob on the server hosting ultrasaur.us, that basically recorded ... http://euri.ca/blog/2008/10/31/understanding-traffic-on-the-401-pt-1/ Disclaimer: Any of the security articles on this site, no matter how juicy the titles, are about white-hat work. If anyone learns anything useful for attacking servers from me, it's because they are really, really bad at googling. I'm not a paranoid person, I rarely lock my doors. Even ... http://euri.ca/blog/2008/10/26/why-computer-security-scares-me/