How do you know that a new month has started?
Your INBOX is filled with mailing list membership reminders.
Update your Flash!
Flash has one big problem: No automatic updates. Firefox checks for updates of itself and all installed add-ons. But plugins are ignored. This can lead to some troubles. The Random Password Generator had over 3000 visits the last few days. I checked the Google Analytics statistics and only 13.85% of the visitors had a current version of Flash. Important bugfixes aren't installed on a lot of computers! Check your Flash version!...
Random password generator updated
The random password generator has 2 new features: Length of a password and number of words
My Skin Color of Choice
Yes, that's me. I'm a rebel. :-)
No future for Factor on MacOS X 10.4
Slava Pestov: "Daniel Ehrenberg is planning on writing an Objective C 2.0 binding, and once this is done I don't want to keep the old Objective C bridge around anymore. At this point, we will drop 10.4 support." http://permalink....
Gasoline expensive in the US? Come to Germany!
Today I paid €1.459 per liter. That's €5.52 per US Gallon. At the current rate: $8.73 for the Gallon. A bargain! :-)
YouTube has made us regress
Patton Oswalt (you probably know him from The King of Queens) talks about YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=f5-VUNXl9D4 (I don't know how long this link survives. Maybe the video is long gone when you read this.) UPDATE: Video is gone now. :-(
Some strange new feature for Perl
Who would have expected this? http://perl.org/six
Randomizing a sequence in Factor
In Trivial Sequence Shuffling, Leslie P. Polzer posted an easy and short version of a sequence shuffler in Common Lisp. The sort function has to do all the work. Not a recommended way to shuffle your sequences, but a short one. The Factor version isn't very long, too: USING: sorting random ; : seqrnd ( seq -- rndseq ) [ 2drop { -1 0 1 } random ] sort ; !...
Mozilla's Add-Ons Site redesigned
Announced in the Mozilla Blog: The add-ons site is now available in a new design. It looks very nice. I have just one problem: Today I wanted to check if my installed add-ons are ready for Firefox 3. The old site had a version information like "1.5 - 3.0b4". This information is gone now.