Coding Relic

Toxoplasmosis has long been known to modify the behavior of its host mice, influencing them in ways which make it more likely they will be...

After many years of working in plain C, I'm back to writing C++. I feel like an unfrozen caveman, confused by the flashing lights of the...

I love how the stackoverflow.com maintenance page show a binary dump of a Windows process where the stack overflow error is defined. Clever...

At the time of this writing 455 planets outside of Earth's own solar system have been discovered. Nearly all are gas giants like Jupiter...

Well, sure. If were it an expected error you would have done something more useful.

Its amazing that hard drives work at all. A tiny little drive head flies just above a metallic tundra, manipulating miniscule dots of magnet...

AT&T recently announced changes to their data plans, eliminating the unlimited data plans and replacing them with tiered plans offering...

For the next month or so expect postings here to be infrequent. I'm more likely to post short snippets on Twitter or Google Buzz durin...

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There is an urban legend that Eskimos have many different words for snow. The truth is the Aleut languages have about as many words for sno...

Every handful of years we ratchet up the Ethernet link speed: from 10 Mbps to 100 Mbps in the early 1990s, to 1 Gbps in the mid 1990s, to 10...

Much has been written about privacy online. When Pandora reveals our friend's music tastes it makes us slightly uncomfortable , even i...

The American Academy of Pediatrics released a policy statement calling for the redesign of foods which pose a choking hazard to children. A...

In the tech industry, how often do we hear this? "Great technology, they just didn't market it well." "Its a shame ...

I just wanted to embed two short audio clips in a web page. Just two little "play" buttons. Thats all. I started with a Flash play...