I have decided to post URLs that I find interesting at http://del.icio.us/sameerd.
If you use Firefox to navigate to the link above, then you should be able to see this icon on the bottom right corner of the browser. (It will probably be different if you do not use the default theme.) If you […]
I have two new ways of wasting my time.
http://www.technorati.com/tag/mathematics
This searches the blogosphere for articles that have a mathematics tag.
http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/math - RSS feed
This searches del.icio.us for social bookmarks that have a math tag.
Of course you can replace mathematics with any other topic you want to browse. Interesting things come up.
I have been dying to get my Dashboard widgets flush with with the desktop like I used to be able to do with Konfabulator. So I decided to write my first cocoa app. Thanks to this hint from Gus Meuller, the Objective C tutorial from Apple and help from Skiadas : This is the result. […]
Skiadas told me about the Acid 2 test which Safari has now passed. Acid 2 tests your browser to see how compliant it is with CSS2 standards. There is a guide that explains how it works. Click on the smiley face on the left to have your browser take the test. I hope […]
Google Labs gives us Ridefinder. It shows in real time the location of available taxi-cabs in most major cities in the USA. With one click I can find out what cabs are available in Hyde Park and which cab company to call. I really hope that this idea graduates from Google Labs. Since […]
Firefox 1.01 has a remote arbitrary code exploit while parsing gif files. Keeping software up-to-date seems to be like change the motor oil in my car - something I know is necessary do regularly but keep delaying. Why is software so prone to errors? The answer is self-evident when I consider how I write code. […]