If you’re like me you’ve got like 150 passwords. There’s no way you can remember all those without writing them down. I’ve been using KeePass to remember them all. It’s a free, super-stable, secure, extendable password manager with a really nice user interface. w00t! You can even set it up to auto-type your username and [...]
Gmail File Space (GSpace) is a Firefox extension that allows you to use your Gmail account for file storage. It works much like the FireFTP extension (or any FTP program for that matter): You just select the file in the left pane, create a “folder” in the right pane, and then click the button [...]
Today at work I encountered what looks like a very simple problem: get the date for a specific day of last week (i.e. “What was last Tuesdays date?”) using VB.NET.
For a human this is a simple task but for a computer it is actually quite complex. Tao and Chris (my esteemed co-workers) and [...]
I thought I’d join the eight majillion other bloggers out there praising the new Elements of Typographical Style site. It’s really an amazing resource. Thanks to Steve.
From a typographical perspective, the most appropriate method is to set box width in ems (elastic layout) as it ensures the measure is always set to the typographer’s specification. [...]
To set up a functional yet secure Word Press blog you’ll want to chmod all of your directory permissions to 755 and file permissions to 644 at most. If you can find a configuration that works with lesser permissions, please let me know. The only exceptions are for files that need to be written to [...]
