Living in a cyberpunk dystopia is weird. Most of the time we don’t even realize we are. We forget because it’s become so mundane, but we live in a highly connected online society largely influenced by giant corporations, and not for the better. Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting… Continue reading Living in a cyberpunk dystopia is weird
Category: Computers
Not a Leap Year
We saw the new Die Hard movie last Friday, “A Good Day to Die Hard.” It wasn’t terrible—the action sequences were good and the concept was there—but compared to the last movie it was disappointing, largely because (for me) the dialogue was very stilted and cliché, focusing more on the one-liners than advancing the plot… Continue reading Not a Leap Year
Anatomy of a blog hack
So, last weekend I found out that my blogs had been hacked. Actually, it wasn’t just my blogs, nothing personal involved or anything like that: the shared server space my sites were hosted on was compromised, and a good number of other sites and files were hacked as well. Based on what I can piece… Continue reading Anatomy of a blog hack
Items of recent awesomeness
Some of these links aren’t as shiny-new as they were when I started this post, but even so: The CDC’s zombie apocalypse preparedness plan: Yes, the CDC is all over the possibility of a zombie apocalypse. For real. If zombies did start roaming the streets, CDC would conduct an investigation much like any other disease… Continue reading Items of recent awesomeness
jawdropping
(Pure geek post.) This is sick (not in the gross sense): 6502 compatible compiler and emulator in javascript. In JavaScript. If you don’t know what any of this means, that’s okay. I can’t hardly get my head around it either. Via JWZ.
Akismet
I’ve started using the spam-killing service Akismet to handle comment spam on my three blogs. That, and instituted a basic moderation system for comments. I can’t say as I’ve been dealing with as much comment spam as some people, but I just got sick and tired of dealing with the problem myself and decided to… Continue reading Akismet
Commodore 64 emulator… in Flash
Okay, geek levels are off the charts on this one: FC64, a Commodore C64 emulator for Flash. And it’s open source. This is just mind boggling… …because, among other things, what this means is that I could embed a Commodore 64 emulator, games and all, right here on my blog. Because it’s in Flash. And… Continue reading Commodore 64 emulator… in Flash
Dell computer fun
Simone noted the humor/frustration level I was having with Dell this week at work. Of course, anytime I mention “Dell” around her she shakes her head in disgust, so perhaps she’s not exactly the most objective observer. 🙂 What happened was, at work this week one of the newish Dell PCs started making a high-pitched… Continue reading Dell computer fun
Bad PHP! Bad!
If you’re familiar with web programming and AJAX and PHP, check out this item about Client-side PHP on The Daily WTF. Go ahead, take a look. I’ll wait. Done? Good. Now, if you’re familiar with what’s happening in that code, I’ll wait while you convulse in horror. 🙂 Holy expletive, that code makes me angry… Continue reading Bad PHP! Bad!
What about a local PHP user group?
Last week I met with a local businessman who was interested in finding a local PHP expert/consultant for a project that he’s expanding. He already has a long-distance PHP guy doing work for him, but also wanted someone local. This got me to thinking; aside from myself and a few isolated individuals, and Alpine, who… Continue reading What about a local PHP user group?