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Author Archives: Joel
No, DynDNS, you’re on your own
I came back from vacation the other day to one of the funniest vendor emails I’ve ever received. DynDNS, a free Dynamic DNS provider, sent me a request for a survey with the subject “C’mon, seriously, help us help you.” If that’s not bad enough, they went on to accuse me of ignoring them (which is hilarious since they hardly send me emails at all) and then declared the obvious fact that they’re bad at communicating with their customers.
The S is for Speed: The Pale Moon Project
I recently ran into a problem at work in which I could no longer use Firefox or Chrome as my default browser. I was instead instructed to us the aging kludge known as Internet Explorer 6. Normally, I have no problems following the due process at work, but in today’s society where the vast majority of work is done either on or in conjunction with the internet I have a slight issue with an older browser being the only allowable tool (especially one that horribly fails the Acid 2 test). Furthermore, many companies are no longer supporting IE6 and others are actively pushing modern browsers. My search for a new browser ended when I found the Pale Moon Project.
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Tagged firefox, optimization, Pale Moon, web browser, windows
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Teaching Fibonacci the easy way
If you ever find yourself having trouble teaching someone about Fibonacci numbers or the Golden spiral, I’d like you to remember that a picture truly is worth a thousand words.
via flickr
All hail the Mc10:35!
There is a secret movement sweeping San Francisco McDonalds. It’s an elusive beast akin to our own McGangBang 2.0. Unlike our aforementioned gastrointestinal delicacy, this mashup of a sandwich can only be obtained once every day. Once every day! How could this be!
Imagine for a moment, it’s mid morning and you’re standing in a McDonalds wracked with guilt. Do you appease your intestinal lusting with a piece of midday sustenance or do you pounce upon a breakfast bite to better remind yourself of what could have been had you slept in? Desperate you look at the clock, time is running out. If you wait too long your decision will be made and breakfast will have died by the wayside. But dammit, you still yearn for the comfort a breakfast sandwich brings even as you acquiesce to the sustainability of the ubiquitous burger. And then it hits you: the Mc10:35!
Matchstick Minas Tirith
We can add another item to the long list of amazing things that I wish I thought of and yet have no time to ever accomplish. Patrick Acton of Iowa has completed an incredibly detailed match stick model of Minas Tirith. His labor of love began in April of 2007 and culminated last week on the 15th of February. He used 420,000 matchsticks to create the city and another 24,000 wooden blocks for Mount Mindolluin (the mountain the city is built into). You can catch more pictures of the model over at Matchstick Marvels and I must say, they’re pretty awesome.