I came across an odd quirk in IIS today. It uses a feature called Socket Pooling to bind to all IP addresses on a machine, regardless of if any websites are running on those IPs. This effectively stops you from running Apache and IIS on the same machine, if you want them both to run […]
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I promise. I’ve got all sorts of things swirling in my head. I’ll be writing some of them soon.
For now, I recommend the new Coldplay album. I’m 2 songs in, and really enjoying it.
I’m back home now. The trip to Toronto was great, but such a whirlwind. I was totally exhausted by the end of it. And THEN I went to Iceland for a 24 hour stopover, and went horse riding and on a long day tour, followed by a sleepless night spent in a hotel lobby. Ultimate […]
I don’t know if I even blogged that this was happening yet, but I’m in Toronto. For work, again. Flew with Icelandair, via Reykjavik. Pretty good flights, nothing much to complain about, except a serious gotcha which I may discuss later.
I had forgotten how incredibly hot and humid Toronto summers are. Man.
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Providing clean power to disaster stricken areas
Published May 16th, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsFound this on Engadget today:
Getting power to disaster-affected areas is always a tough task, but Andrew Leinonen’s undergrad industrial design thesis (and recent first place entry in the 2008 ACIDO Rocket Show) might be able to solve the problem in an efficient and clever way. Dubbed Solarial, the idea is to use small unmanned airships […]
At least one researcher has shown that the length and “awesomeness” of your facial hair directly affects the success of your programming language.
I’ve held this to be true for a number of years. It sums up much of my childhood.
It’s just above zero degrees today, and snowing lightly.
LORD HELP ME.
Before those not interested in video games write this off… hear this! Things are happening in this video game industry that have not happened before… wierd and wonderful things. It’s not going to be long, my friends, until Peter Molyneux’s vision of games being as accepted an artform as movies and books becomes reality.
Take a […]
I was half way through a long and amusing tale about living in Finland when my browser ate all the pies, and I lost it. I’m so fed up with my current web platform… this Joomla and Wordpress union. It’s not doing it for me anymore. I need something easier and smarter. That’s part of […]
