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“More clear” is clearer than “clearer” but “clearer” is correcter. That bugs me. When I checked, the top hit for “clearer” on Google was a page about why there isn’t stronger evidence of the existence of a Christian god. I read a few paragraphs of it, but it quickly degraded to Pascal’s Wager and I […]

Want to know how to put sound on your web page? You’ve come to the right place! If you’re eager to get people to close their browser or madly click the Back button as soon as your page loads, make some noise. There are pretty much no situations in which I want my computer to […]

Recently, my Google Talk silently updated itself (hey!). This update apparently removed the ability to disable idle detection, resulting in Google Talk advertising me as being available to chat whenever I touch my computer. I turn off idle detection because sometimes (often, in fact) when I’m using my computer, I don’t want to talk to […]

Something’s up. I’m talking about a conspiracy. There’s a parody of Yesterday, the Beatles song, called Leprosy (which I originally heard on Dr. Demento in the 80s). I’ve been googling for the lyrics, but all I’ve found are some failed attempts to recite it from memory (and some inferior attempts at original parody). WHY are […]

I’m doing some .Net (specifically C#) coding these days, and I need to unit test. NUnit – NUnit seems to be the most common solution, and definitely looks promising. NUnit has a stand-alone GUI and a command-line mode, and although that’s sufficient, it doesn’t appear to integrate with Visual Studio 2003 like JUnit integrates with […]

Whoa. Was that December? Is it 2006? A few days ago I stepped on my pocket digital camera (a Sony Cybershot DSC-T1) and broke the LCD. I am very sad about that. It wasn’t my high-end camera, but it was very respectable (5 Megapixel, 3x optical zoom, and excellent macro capabilities — most photos I’ve […]

Most web sites look great with a browser width of 800. Yay! Good job, most web designers! Most people don’t run resolutions lower than 800×600, and most people who do run 800×600 probably run their applications maximized, because 800×600 is so tiny. There are a few sites (like Tucows), pushing the browser width envelope. I […]