Category Archives: misc

Entrepreneurs, angels, and the cost of launch – Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)

Nice reading: Entrepreneurs, angels, and the cost of launch (@ signal vs. noise)

Other people’s (blogger.com) blogs

Notice: The following tutorial is not to be used in ways that are against the law. It only demonstrates a problem that can be caused by the way blogger.com uses profile images. A similar technique is used by many ad … read more

The “Personal Mall” Concept

Yesterday I set up Things I Bought, which is what I call a “personal mall”. A personal mall is a personal website presenting items the owner (or blogger) actually bought and used. Those things may be diverse in a way: … read more

MD5 is dead

As shown in MD5 Collisions, it is (relatively) easy to construct 2 documents that have the same MD5 hash. Which means, that you should not trust MD5 as a digital signature. [via me and mostly libre software]

What’s wrong with GMail’s SSL certificate?

I’ve been getting this error since yesterday on Firefox (1.0.4 on Linux and OS X). Is it my problem or a general one?

The PowerBook Sudden Motion Sensor

Ok, this is one of the things you come accross and say “Wow”! This guy, Amit Singh wrote some piece of software that makes use of PowerBook’s motion sensor. You can actually tilt the laptop and navigate a web page, … read more

Geo-everything…

Lately, I have come accross many applications or ideas that combine geographic data with other information. People are talking about “geocasting” that is podcasts associated with geographical coordinates, geo-targeting in ads (this is old, I know) and now this: Mappr! … read more

From “Reference Tracking” to “ContentMix”

Those of you who have been reading this blog are already familiar with what I’ve called “Content Enrichment” (if not read this). I was reading Reference Tracking and the Performance of Technorati, Feedster, and Bloglines (by Jeremy Zawodny) when I … read more

I want one of these!!!!

The Mac mini is soooooo cool! Will it run Linux? I’ll buy one the soonest possible. The perfect server for home.

Blogger.com recommends firefox!

I forgot my blogger.com password, so I used the “forgot password” form to regain access to my account. The automated email I received said at the end: You could also try logging in/recovering your password from a different web browser … read more