over the past two weeks or so, i’ve been trying to catch up on emerging technologies for the web. some, like technorati, i’ve been a part of for a while, while others i’m still trying to see the point in…take del.icio.us, for example. for my use, i don’t see the big deal…it’s just a mess [...]
12 hour days are keeping me away from my newly-connected pc, but here is something nice: PCPitStop – it has to be used in IE, i believe, but it’s a nifty little benchmarker. from the front page, choose “Full Tests” from the left-hand menu. click on “New User” and then “Use Anonymously.” follow the directions [...]
i saw a slashdot article yesterday that plunged me back to nostalgia: “MP3 Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary”. yep, my preferred audio format is 10 years old. i first encountered mp3s when i was downloading music from the sega cd rpg lunar: the silver star. this was probably later in 1995, but i was blown away [...]
banging my head against the wall does not fix a programming bug, but that’s what i’m reduced to now. there’s a particular problem with getting a java servlet container to reflect changes i made to a java server page. everything looks fixed, but still acts broken. the trouble is, it’s fixed on my machine and [...]
dealing with a corrupt 80 gb hard drive is not fun. faced with formatting as a last resort, ultimately losing all data i’d accrued over the course of college, i searched for ways of recovering the data. the windows programs to solve this are abundant, but fickle, choking on every small disc error…and errors there [...]
