Monthly Archives for 2004 03
Joe Job?
2004 March 31 at 04:53
Looks like there are some large scale joe-job attacks going around. I get so many spam emails from a...
Google Changes again and price increases
2004 March 29 at 20:25
Google has made a change to the appearence of their site after a long long time. They have also 'off...
Voice Recognition and Dictation
The IBM WebSphere Voice Tool Kit appears to be a promising option for voice recognition, with its fo...
Google encourages SEOs
2004 March 27 at 20:44
Googles recent antics - that of changing the index or the algorithm every few hours is playing right...
Eth0 and ppp0
2004 March 26 at 20:36
I didn't have a network at home and thought it was about time I set one up. So I pluged in a realtec...
Speech recognition with OCVolume
2004 March 26 at 04:32
Downloaded a software called OCVolume - a voice recognition software. Before you can use you need to...
Voice
2004 March 24 at 19:57
Been playing around with speech synthesis and voice recognition. This is a new area for me and still...
Web Cams
2004 March 23 at 23:46
When will manufacturers break away from the dark lord at M$. When I buy my own hardware I make absol...
J2ME pitfalls
2004 March 23 at 09:21
I wrote the other day about how the java 2 collections has been done away with in favour of vector a...
Card Designer
2004 March 22 at 06:11
Our Card designer applet is finaly ready to hit the market. It is now more than 6 months after the s...
Titles in Movable type
2004 March 22 at 04:18
Just made a post about megaupload, I wanted the title to be clickable so I placed them within an htm...
Penny pinching
2004 March 21 at 20:58
Have you ever gone over your coding changing i += 1 to i++ Lots of people do. In some languages like...
No silver bullet
Rad Upload certainly makes it easier for the end users of a website to upload files to it. Unfortuna...
jarsigner
2004 March 20 at 03:41
Anyone who has worked with Signed java applets would have been shocked the first time they used the ...
Mega Upload
2004 March 19 at 22:14
Mega upload is back at the top of sourceforge. The statics page at
sourceforge has been ...
The Sinclair ZX spectrum
2004 March 18 at 21:51
The Sinclair Spectrum was my first computer about 17 years ago. I was twelve years old at the time. ...
Greymatter
2004 March 17 at 23:21
I have been playing around with greymatter for a while now and have finally decided to give up on it...
CPU toast
2004 March 17 at 21:07 » Tagged as: toast, google apps
Just a day after thinking of getting a new machine I had my computer die on me as I was working on i...
Pagerank calculation - at last
2004 March 16 at 21:32
After nearly eight weeks google seems to have recalculated the pagerank for many sites. However it s...
32 or 64 bit CPU?
2004 March 16 at 21:04 » Tagged as: cpu
I am in the process of setting up a new machine, and since I enjoy assembling and installing Linux o...
Javascript upload
A common question in many newsgroups or mailing lists is "how can I upload files using JavaScript?" ...
Daily Spidering
2004 March 15 at 21:45
A well designed spider will hit urls that are regularly updated more often than those URLs that are ...
Support
2004 March 15 at 09:56
Do you like those 'support ticket' systems most companies use? Systems where you can't just write in...
Grey Matter
2004 March 14 at 10:41
My quest for identifying the best web log software continues.. Right now I am looking at
...
The Java Help System
2004 March 14 at 09:41
You came here probably because you are a software engineer or web developer, you would know how to u...
Piracy, Idiocy and Advocay
2004 March 13 at 10:34
Couple of days ago there was a message in one of the Sri Lankan Linux user group (lklug) mailing lis...
Google hiccups
2004 March 13 at 08:43
Couple of days back I wrote about how google shows one set of results during the day time and anothe...
From blogger to MovableType
2004 March 12 at 13:14 » Tagged as: blog
In a recent blog post, I discussed the need to switch from blogger.com to movable type for various r...
Forums and Mailing Lists
2004 March 11 at 08:44
Many web based forums display a number against each user's nick. This is the number of messages that...
bye bye blogger
2004 March 10 at 00:50
The time has come for me to move on. The gripe #1 with blogger is that it does not have enough docum...
Adwords and Adsense
2004 March 9 at 02:19
At Rad Inks we use google adwords to advertise our products. Here on my site I use google adsense to...
Religious war - perl vs PHP
There was an interesting discussion in the evolt list (the list as the call it) about perl vs PHP. A...
Google Gargles
2004 March 8 at 02:40
Have you noticed anything funny about google results of late? Since last week if you do a search for...
Perl Objects
2004 March 6 at 22:58
Using object oriented techniques in perl might feel a bit strange if you are moving to perl from Jav...
Happy Birthday Rad Inks
2004 March 5 at 23:44 » Tagged as: radinks
Rad Inks, the software company I co-founded celebrates it's first anniversary today. We started at t...
Cheating on diary entries.
2004 March 5 at 08:35
Are you seeing this entry marked as been posted on the 05th of march 2004? I made the post on 13th m...
Did google waste their money?
2004 March 4 at 03:29
Blogger out did themselves yesterday. First it repeated a post in my other blog
Sri Lank...
SEO is four letter word
2004 March 3 at 00:26
Have you visited any search engine optimization forums or web sites recently? Did you notice how mos...
Blogger goes berserk
2004 March 2 at 00:24
Grrr. why does blogger.com insist on duplicating some posts. Looks to me like they have a bug that r...