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...
Can you still write?
i.e. Can you still write with your hand? I ran across this article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7907888.stm) on the BBC, which predicts that we will have forgotten the art...
New Toy : Kindle 2.0
I have been looking at getting an e-book reader for some time now (yes.. even though I don’t have time, I still like to think I...