Open Source Education
If you have time on your hand and want to learn something useful, head on over to Academic Earth (http://academicearth.org/) and view lectures from some of...
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I am officially a trillionaire
Following up on my previous posting about what you can buy with a trillion dollars, I actually bid on some Zimbabwean currency on ebay.. I just...
Lessons of the Trade : Simple way to deter web scrapers
If your website is a target of web scrapers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_scraping), here’s a simple way to keep them on their toes.. Every few days (or weeks) make...
OverHeard : Comment about contribution
Comment by a colleague about how useful your contributions are at work.. Yesterdays recipe is today’s shit In other words, there is no end to the...
Lessons of the trade : Troubleshooting database perfromance
If you have ever worked in an IT shop, you will know that the one thing you cannot escape from is issues related to Database performance....
A picture speaks a thousand words
Here’s a picture from a BBC photo essay about the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team by terrorists in Pakistan (Bomb Disposal Expert working on...