April 2009
31 posts
'Hackers wanted' ad fed security misconception -... →
how would you feel if police departments went around hiring sex offenders to investigate rapes? Frankly, I believe that sex crimes are almost always more critical than computer crimes. Why wouldn’t…
The decline and fall of high-fructose corn syrup.... →
High-fructose corn syrup first started trickling into our food supply about 40 years ago; by 1984, it was flowing from just about every soda fountain in the country. These days HFCS accounts for…
Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu |... →
In 2007, as the world worried about a possible avian flu epidemic, Laurie Garrett, author of “The Coming Plague,” gave this powerful talk to a small TED University audience. Her insights from past…
An emergency fund out of thin air - MSN Money →
Jailhouse Tech Sniffs Out ‘Cell’ Phones | Danger... →
In prison, the cellphone is a deadly weapon: Inmates can use contraband phones to plot more crime, intimidate or kill witnesses or plan an escape. But the introduction of the Safe Prisons…
Appcelerator Entourage Documentation | Entourage... →
Entourage MQ provides a simple to use publish/subscribe messaging system for HTML/JavaScript applications, empowering event-driven UI development in the web browser. MQ also provides facilities for…
How Hackers Can Steal Secrets from Reflections:... →
Key Concepts * Even with the best network security, your electronic data may not be safe from a determined hacker. * Researchers have extracted information from nothing more than the reflection of a…
Forgotten Franklin letters offer glimpse into U.S.... →
LONDON, England (CNN) — An American professor doing research in London stumbled across a series of previously unknown letters written by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin, a stunning find that sheds…
How to use your iPod to move your music to a new... →
When can I use... →
nice tables of when upcoming web technologies will arrive in browsers. No surprise IE is a huge laggard.
Fructose-Sweetened Beverages Linked to Heart Risks... →
Some research has suggested that consumption of high-fructose corn syrup, used as a sweetener in a wide variety of foods, may increase the risk of obesity and heart disease. Now, a controlled and…
Thanks for the memory →
Running out of Java⢠heap isn’t the only cause of a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError. If native memory runs out, OutOfMemoryErrors that your normal debugging techniques won’t be able to solve can occur….
Cassini's continued mission - The Big Picture -... →
Beautiful pictures of Saturn and her moons…
peeping into memcached :: snax →
moderncat :: » Are Plastic Food Containers Safe? →
Have you given any thought to the type of material used in your catâs food bowl and food storage container? Well, I recently learned a little about this topic when faced with Mackenzieâs breakout…
The link between autism and extraordinary ability... →
Coding Horror: Exception-Driven Development →
Ned Batchelder: Fix error handling first →
Excel Formulas and the DLR – Part 2 « Chris... →
10 Cool Things We’ll Be Able To Do Once IE6 Is... →
10 years later, the real story behind Columbine -... →
That story about a student being shot in the head after she said she believed in God? Never happened, the FBI says now.
Mailund on the Internet » Blog Archive » Simple... →
FT.com / Weekend / Reportage - Is a high IQ a... →
Amazon Web Services Developer Community : Amazon... →
ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight Help →
POKE 53280,0: Pete Brown's Blog : How to Resize a... →
Silverlight Web Services Team →
Telerik Silverlight Controls Documentation →
Getting Silverlight Plugin to resize on resize of... →
more javascript linked resizing crap
Delay's Blog : The web just got even better...... →
some notes as well on automatically resizing based on browser window size.
Silverlight Patterns: Model-View-ViewModel In... →