Entries for Tuesday, February 27, 2007
➠ February 27, 2007
Philip Greenspun's Weblog : Free helicopter rides for programmers
Stonking prize for the BarCampBoston2 programming contest — A free helicopter tour of Boston with PhilG as your pilot!
Downloading the final release of Parallels (which I own) with BitTorrent, since the official servers are hosed. Hooray for piracy.
Posted to Twitter at 8:22 p.m.
Heading to [RhymesWithNose]’s other Massachusetts location for the first time. Will undoubtedly get lost.
Posted to Twitter at 4:56 p.m.
code slate: you don't bury survivors
“What was your contribution to the team?” “Light both ends of fuse one and one end of fuse two. When fuse one burns out, light the other end of fuse two.”
The Impossible Quiz Deluxe by =Splapp-me-do on deviantART
Trick questions, logical traps, and just general evilness. Takes an age to download and get going, but it’s plenty of fun.
A whole bunch of appointments on my calendar have jumped by an hour due to the DST “fix” installed on our Exchange server. Bad Microsoft!
Posted to Twitter at 4:08 p.m.
SOAP was the worst thing ever invented ever in the name of anything ever. Webservices are hurting my head.
Posted to Twitter at 3:48 p.m.
swfIR: swf Image Replacement
Cunning use of Flash and Javascript to enable “special effects” (borders, rotation and shadows) on images in web pages cleanly.
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