So I saw a post on my wall from a friend, but something just didn’t sound right. Again, it was a case of the Facebook spam that somehow tricked you into posting something you didn’t want to post to all of your friends. And many people made the mistake, and it spread fast. Mainly, it … Continue reading Wow, Facebook Hackers
I was trying to get mod_rewrite working on my WordPress blog which is on a server I set up. Except it just didn’t work. Solution (which you can find on the internet, but not that easily if you don’t know what to look for) is that in your httpd.conf file, you need to make sure … Continue reading mod_rewrite reminder
Ok, here is the problem. You are at a restaurant with a number of your friends, and the bill comes. But you have a 5, and two 10s. But your bill is 17. And your friend has 2 ones, and a 20. And another friend has three 10s. You need to split the bill–you want … Continue reading Split the Bill
Check out the last part of the performance where four of us pass in a box around three people. Two are passing across all three and two are passing between the three. Continue reading Down With Gravity Performs at the Basketball Game
So here is the riddle: There is a list of numbers, where each number appears in the list twice. Except there is one number that appears once. I give you the list one number at a time. The question is: can you find out what the number is that appears only once? You can’t save … Continue reading Riddle: List of Numbers, Each Appears Twice …
Heres a quick code idea that I came up with a while back. I call it a type shift code. Basically imagine that you type as normal on a keyboard, but you shift your hands over one key on the home row. If you do this and type, everything will look like complete nonsense, but … Continue reading Type Shift Code
If you’ve been on the internet in the last couple years, you may have stumbled up FMyLife, or My Life is Average, or Damn You Autocorrect, or any number of sites in this genre. The genre is sites that let you post little bits of content around a certain theme, and they are usually similarly … Continue reading Popular Site Template, a site that lets you make silly websites!
A little while back I made a site with Google App Engine that is a very simple voting website. I tried to mimic the style of StackOverflow in terms of voting, but the goal was to make it much simpler. The site is made to be used to sift through lots of ideas or items. … Continue reading Best To Top, an App for Brainstorming
This is another one of those things on the internet that has gotten popular in the last year. It’s big brands trying to be funny like they are your friend. And it has become a really popular marketing strategy. It’s not being funny in a ‘let’s make funny commercials’ kind of way, although to me … Continue reading Commercial Comedy
Ok. Let me explain. Knowing about new tech companies is like knowing about indie music. There is this sort of template conversation you hear over and over again and you can literally replace band with startup and it makes complete sense. When people talk about indie music, it’s cool to know about obscure bands. For … Continue reading Startups Are Like Indie Bands