Pbur’s Adventures

The life and times of Patrick Burleson

Category Archives: Computers

New Toy

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Ever since the Mac Mini came out I’ve been wanting one. I enjoy using a Mac with OS X for a lot of the development I do. I really need the Unix underneath, but at the same time the Linux GUIs drive me crazy most of the time. OS X is a very nice mix [...]

Transparent Desktops

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This is an amazing set of pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637/ They aren’t Photoshoped images. It’s a picture of the background as the Desktop picture giving an illusion of transparency. The most impressive one to me is this one.

TaDa Lists

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I know I’m a little behind the news here, but I started using Ta-Da List the day it came out and I loved it from the start. One of the coolest things is I can share the list with anyone…so for one, I’ve made a list for my wife to use for “Honey Do” items. [...]

Vonage

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A while back Robert mentioned to me he was going to make the jump to Vonage, a Voice Over IP (VOIP) telephone service created to replace your actual phone company. I told him it all looked good, but to let me know what he thought after using it for a while. After about a month [...]

Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?

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Will sent me the following link: http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/killerquiz/ The challenge is to figure out if the person pictured invented a computer programming language or were a serial killer. I didn’t do so well…I only got 4 out of 10 correct. Yikes!

Ask you shall receive!

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So Will sent me a link this morning..and lo and behold, someone with time on their hands has reverse engineered the Google Suggest stuff. http://serversideguy.blogspot.com/2004/12/google-suggest-dissected.html

How did they do that?!

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Google never ceases to amaze me. Try this version of their search engine: http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1 Then start typing a search and be amazed!

Best 404 Page Ever

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This has to be one of my favorite 404 error pages ever. Very closely followed by the SGI crying baby, for which I can not find a link to show. For those of you not familiar with a “404 Page”, it’s the term given to the page served by the webserver when it can’t find [...]

My vote the best use of ASCII art and Flash.

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ImageShack – Hosting :: feuerfreimovie.swf Enjoy Update….link is toast now. Sorry.

Postgresql Seminar

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I went to a Postgresql seminar near Philadelphia today that was very fun. Not necessarily the Postgresql part ( although it was good and I learned some things I didn’t know ), but I got to meet some people there I had only met via message boards or IM. Let’s see, Robert Sfeir ( someone [...]