Coding Relic

It started, as things often do nowadays, with a tweet . As part of a discussion of networking-fu I mentioned ProxyARP, and that it was no lo...

Until this week I thought Twitter would focus on datamining the tweetstream rather than adding features for individual users. I based this ...

My current project relies on a large number of XML Schema definition files. There are 1,600 types defined in various schemas, with action...

In March, 2010 there were 50 million tweets per day . In March, 2011 there were 140 million tweets per day . In May, 2011 there were 155...

Recently Kevin Rose redirected his eponymous domain to his Google+ profile, reflecting that "G+ gives me more (real-time) feedback and...

Nowadays I make a habit of writing up how to use particular tools or techniques for anything which might be useful to reference later. Many...

Last week discussed how Ethernet CRCs don't cover what we think they cover . Surely the TCP checksum, as an end to end mechanism, provid...

Apparently Alyssa Milano used her Twitter account to verify her Google+ account. XFN 1.1 defined a number of relationship attribut...

I've never been happy with the use of a single word to describe associations on a social network , whether that word is "friending...

Machine translation has improved so much that we can now joke about it, pointing and laughing when it comes up with something particularly ...

Ethernet frames carry a CRC32 to ensure data integrity. It is often assumed that this CRC is carried all the way across the network, but in ...

I am a huge fan of Dune , by Frank Herbert . It posits a star-spanning yet feudal society. It relies on a plot device, the Holtzmann shield,...

Peerspective [peer-spek-tiv] (noun) : Suddenly remembering important feedback which should have gone into the peer review submitted last w...

Factorecursion [fak-tuh-ree-kur-zhuhn] (noun) : Very clever, young man, very clever, but its factories all the way down. Foo  FooF...

The human kind, not computing. What you say: THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS POLICY. What I hear: We realize that you...