links for 2005-08-15
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Nice article on how to store passwords securely in PHP. Not all projects need this, but many certainly do.
links for 2005-08-14
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Get your own suggest tool powered by AJAX. Neat.
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Some amazing skydive videos from Joe Jennings. What a job he’s got–professional jumper!
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Amazing pictures from a two week or so relief work trip. Some amazing shots.
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Some nice examples of what can be done with CSS.
Poll: Do you put email replies at the top or bottom?
This is probably as bad as introducing religion or politics, but do you place email replies before or after the text you are replying to? I’m most often a bottom replier with threading used for longer messages. My reasoning is that I like to know what I am reading, so by placing my reply at the bottom I am giving the other person context.
And you?
links for 2005-08-13
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Yours truely owns mile 6 of this daring exploration. Very cool to know that not only am I helping out modern day exploring, MobileTracker will be represented on the South Pole.
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Doesn’t appear to be rocket surgery to get OS X running on a PC. Good for us, bad for Steve.
links for 2005-08-12
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Neat way to avoid having to adjust the time zone for your alarm clock when you’re on the road, but these days mobile phones do the same thing.
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Cover art gone bad. The true story of a CD that used a big barcode to look cool on its cover, only to find out that it was a read UPC and was of another CD. Too funny.
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Nick Denton sez: “I know it galls Jason Calacanis that his sites are about as memorable as Burger King franchises, and that none register among the top blogs, except Pete Rojas’s Engadget”
links for 2005-08-11
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Nice tutorial for gettings started with going from PSD to XHTML/CSS
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Never give hackers a challenge. Just read the comments. I bet TradeSports will be trading on this once the PS3 ships.
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“The explosion left a crater in two-lane U.S. 6 estimated to be between 20 feet and 35 feet deep.”
links for 2005-08-09
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Interesting stats from a professional study on the blog reading demographic. Young and flush with cash. Yay.
links for 2005-08-08
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I had no idea that his cancer was this advanced.
Identifying ants
We have a bit of an ant problem in the house (it started about the same time as all the rain a few months ago, so I think they all headed for shelter–our shelter). The poison we have hasn’t really nuked them back to the stone age, so I set out tonight to identify the buggers. They are really really small as evidenced by my macro shot. The bumps on the background there are from a napkin and from what I have read the ants max out at 1/8th”.
Identifying a creature this small is insane–the difference between an Argentine and an Odorous is a Petiole with or without an errect node. Whatever that means. Here is the site I tried to use, but I think it would be best to have a scanning electron microscope before attempting to follow their tool.
Skydive
I made my second dive today–this time with my girlfriend Samantha. It was to celebrate her birthday which is neat because she’s going to remember this forever (it was her first jump). We went at SkyDive City which is one of the largest drop zones (DZ) in the world but is also only 40 minutes away from my house. I got the picture/video set for Sam, linked below. What a rush!
UPDATE: I replaced the H264 codec video with an MPEG 4 version. Evidently QuickTime 7 isn’t yet widely installed (I got four or five complaints that the file didn’t work).