Archive for September, 2006


Mind Performance Hacks

If you remember “Mind Hacks: Tips & Tricks for Using Your Brain” (previously mentioned here, which helped you understand how the brain works under certain conditions and why does it behave like that), here’s the perfect sequel, also from O’Reilly: “Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain“.
Focusing on performance, it’s bundled […]

all your iTunes 7 cover art are belong to us

Well, if iTunes 7 let people download 600×600px cover art for their downl^H^H^H^H^H ripped CDs, why wouldn’t the rest of the dog-bless iTunes impaired people world have the ability to do so?
Hell, they give you the liberty of use your language of choice and all: PERL * PHP * Python * Ruby

poor man’s disaster recovery

And one day something terrible happens.
The server which this site was running on (and a few others) had a few problems with the mainboard power module and started shutting down every now and then. It is a mini-ATX system using some kind of proprietary power supply (which was replaced promptly for an identical one - […]

image spam spam spam spam spam

Sorry about that… Most spam I’ve been getting in the past few weeks has a bunch of random text (specially designed to look like a legitimate email) and the such and then a .gif attachment with text advertising stocks, casinos, viagra and xenical and dog knows what. I was tired of watching the Thunderbird bayesian […]