Month: December 2004

  • ponies

    Today’s picture of the week is brought to you by Mikaela, with fresh ‘ponies’ right after her bath. They only stay like that for a few minutes while they’re still wet. Her hair is getting so long she can hardly get through a door like this.

  • obfuscated

    obfuscated: To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand The art of obfuscation in programming is very interesting, and is often done to protect vital intellectual capital. In Google’s case, as I wrote about previously, the nature of web pages demands that part of their Google Suggest code is…

  • google suggest

    Just when you thought Google was the answer (what’s the question?), they come up with auto-complete on a web page. Have a look here. It’s the regular Google page, except with autocomplete included. Those of you who have done any web design or programming know how difficult this is to code. There’s a good explanation…

  • Categories

    As of this post, this blog will contain both technical and personal writing. If you are interested in only one or the other, please use the links Personal: https://www.gybe.ca/index.php?cat=2 Technical: https://www.gybe.ca/index.php?cat=4 And if you don’t care, then continue using the same links as before. As always, the categories are also available on the sidebar.

  • A computer in every home

    The picture of the week was sent to me today, (read “I can’t verify the authenticity but it is good for a laugh) from a 1954 Popular Mechanics. It’s RAND Corporation’s idea of what a home computer would look like in 2004. Not sure about you, but this beast sure doesn’t look like what I’ve…

  • picture of the week

    The discerning reader will quickly realize that this blogger has failed miserably in his quest of posting a picture of the week. So far the posting rate is around 1 in 29 years. Some quick extrapolation shows the picture isn’t due until 2035. Hark, what is that sound? Why, it’s the sound of not one,…

  • rent-a-blogger

    Want to start blogging and don’t know how? Rent a blogger for three months…