February 25, 2008
Pwn3d
Seen in a Harvey Norman parking lot.read... (7 words. Posted to personal at 11:02 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 0)
February 22, 2008
Duty Calls
Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice... can't get fooled again!read... (85 words. Posted to personal at 10:23 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 0)
February 15, 2008
Intra-office email
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.read... (194 words. Posted to personal at 11:44 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 0)
February 14, 2008
Apple TV 2.0 First Impressions
Similarly, my first impression of the Apple TV 2.0 is that it is a perfectly serviceable device that allows me to play media from my iTunes libraries, and allows me to buy and rent movies and music from the iTunes store... but it feels like Apple outsourced the design.read... (465 words. Posted to nerd at 02:50 PM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 0)
February 13, 2008
JSR-666 Extension: Exception Types
When checking preconditions in Java code, it is very common to check whether some method argument is null, and throw an exception if it is. There are two equally valid exceptions that may be used in this case: IllegalArgumentException and NullPointerException. The decision to use one over the other is often the cause of holy wars, and can consume a great deal of productivity on internal mailing-lists and blogs.read... (245 words. Posted to nerd at 04:08 PM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 0)
February 08, 2008
Facebook for Dummies
This, in a nutshell, is how Facebook apps work, and why 95% of the time I get a notification from such an application, I end up annoyed.read... (182 words. Posted to nerd at 10:43 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 0)
February 05, 2008
Meraki's Shipment of Fail
Then I discovered that the shipping cost for my three Meraki repeaters (RRP: US$49 each) was a mind-boggling $62.read... (208 words. Posted to nerd at 04:57 PM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 0)