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The MTA doesn’t take my house keys

August 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

As I was walking towards the turnstiles I dug into my pocket for my authentication. Its the wrong way to think about metrocards but I can’t help it. Security, passwords, authentication, identification and privacy have all dug their ways into my consciousness. I’m faced with a plethora of different systems all requiring me to prove [...]

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Miracle Berry Tablets

August 12th, 2008 · 20 Comments · Uncategorized

Miracle fruit or berries makes sour things taste sweet. An effect that apparently is quite amazing.
From the supplier’s website.
The active ingredient in the Miracle Berry Fruit, known as Miraclulin coats the tongue and blocks out the taste bud receptors which are responsible for sour, bitter and acidic flavours. The outcome is that all foods [...]

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nic.ly wants $150 a domain

August 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

This would have been the best website ever. But some squatter will pick it up no doubt.

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Suggested Tags

August 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I’m still coming to terms with how wordpress deals with tagging. I think they’re stuck between categories and tags and they need to drop one (categories) as they are basically the same thing and usability suffers with too many options.
To aid in my tagging I got a wordpress plugin called Simple Tags which lets me [...]

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Random Image FB

July 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I had a brief lived application on facebook. It mostly worked right and would load all your photos and put them in a big FB random tag and stick it on your profile. I had it upgraded by Koudelka who played around with Facebook’s javascript subset and got a little Ajaxy (+) link that would [...]

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Hope

July 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I’ve met so many good and nice people over the past few days I can hardly believe there is still one more to go. I want to thank the presenters (even the girl who had the Zuse room before me who had trouble with her crowd), I want to thank TELEPHREAK and GiD for the [...]

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Woo! Uptime!

May 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Longest I’ve gotten on this laptop so far I think.
-Francis

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