You dont often see this amount of concentration where I work!

I love how they made it look just like a normal desktop printer, just really really big. Imagine trying to buy new ink cartridges for this thing. Note the flashing lights to warn folks that this is a MASSIVE printer. Yes, thats a PC monitor on the right hand side. Best-Quality mode: 600 dpi (apparent)High [...]

Went to the Tokyo Motor Show in Makuhari Messe today and met up with Hiro and Kesava. The new concept cars range from extremely cool to butt ugly. Check out more photos here.

Cool Eclipse Plugins to make development with Eclipse even better 300+ Tools for your WordPress Blog Brazilian Waxing O_o Google Gears lets users use your web application offline Member Management System with Scriptaculous is a comprehensive user management system pQuery lets use use the power of jQuery with pure PHP Asp.Net is a useful resource [...]

An extremely funny skit on the ancient art of cork soaking.

404 Notifier helps you identify any broken links in your site. Great if you move posts around and need to update links. Note it only works with pretty permalinks (2006/12/30/post-name), not ugly (?p123) ones. Redirection Manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This [...]

Ed mislaid his video iPod last night. Luckily enough, Greg noticed it and put it somewhere safe so it wouldnt be stolen. He was even kind enough to leave a postit to mark the spot. Too bad the postit blew away…

The StatTraq plugin for WordPress has a bug where the Year and Month time periods are not displayed correctly. Here is a fix for the problem. Download this StatTraq Calendar Patch. Extract calendar.php from the file and copy it into your \wp-stattraq folder, replacing the file that already exists there. Now when you check your [...]

The new in-out trays have been installed, complete with instructions.

IT had a mid-project party in Andys Bar in Yurakucho. We set out to beat the budget of ¥500,000. The 8 pint Guiness was popular – we went through at least 3 of them.

If you have a Linux Synergy client connecting to a Synergy server on another machine, you’ll want the client to start up with GDM so that you can access the mouse and keyboard to log in. Here’s how to get it working Ubuntu, although it should work on other distributions too. Edit the Default file [...]

Yodm 3D is a virtual desktop manager with the fashionable effect : the rotating cube. If you’re using Windows and are feeling left out because all the other cool operating systems like MacOS and Linux have cool special effects (check out all the Beryl and Compiz videos on YouTube) for even the basic functions like [...]

Toy’d is an advanced next-generation Window Manager built on top of Aoof-Wm, an Advanced Object Oriented Framework designed specifically for the development of portable Window Management systems.

Drawing Manga Girls starts out with the theory of using wireframes versus shaded models, the different type of bodies (sporty, slim). The Manga style should not be confused with the Anime style. Manga proportions are very similar to real-life proportions, whereas Anime proportions wildly differ from anything in real life The next chapter shows the [...]

Installing Windows 98 Run Windows 98 from a CD Driver Packs for Windows 98 Unattended Windows Installations Create an Unattended Windows XP CD Create a Multi-Boot DVD with every operating system and support tool you ever need Integrate Microsoft Update into your install CD Unattended Application Installations The Great Unattended Project is an executable that [...]

Zero-installation applications can be run from USB sticks and are extremely useful for troubleshooting. Spread32 is shareware and can do almost everything Excel does. It does not support Visual Basic, but it can run Excel 4 macros. 912KB Atlantis Nova can edit Word documents and save them as .RTF. 1MB With an installation size of [...]

Walter Zorn has useful javascripts for vector graphics, drag and drop, tooltips and image rotation. YUI-EXT is a comprehensive Javascript library for developing web applications. Vector graphics class for Ext Tree panel with context menu Drag and drop in a grid Modern Blue Design has an interesting article on how to fight spam using CSS

Great T-shirt! One of my move engineers was wearing this today. I couldnt help laughing every time he walked by. Apparently he didnt know what it meant. Unfortunately he says he wont wear it again.

I needed to migrate a WordPress blog from one webhost to another. After installing WordPress 2.5.3 on the new host, I looked around for some way of getting the content moved over. The recommended method was to import the content from a WXR file (WordPress eXtended RSS). However, the old host was running WordPress 1.5 [...]

Solomani did a great summary of this Martial Arts documentary I watched last year. Basically it goes through a bunch of martial arts myths and abilities and uses science to figure out if it’s true and how they do it. Essentially they used a modified $150,000 crash-test dummy for the testing. Here are some of [...]

In a project I was working on recently, I moved the backend database from Microsoft Access to MySQL. It worked for the most part, but every so often I would get Write Conflict errors on certain rows of a table. write conflict This record has been changed by another user since you started editing it. [...]

Move over Heroes, here come Zeroes

Sufudu is a very cool drumline, from Sioux Falls South Dakota.

Real World Software Development has a comprehensive list of web 2.0 web sites including bookmarking sites, social communities, email, image and video sharing, and the list is getting longer. One application that has been omitted from all the lists I’ve seen so far is Outlook Web Access from Microsoft. Sure, it needs a Microsoft Exchange [...]

This YouTube video demonstrates a prototype desktop GUI which allows you to manage your documents in the same way as you organize books on your desk. You can drag documents around, stack them into piles, shuffles them by type, and file them into bookshelves. As well as the usual documents like PDF and Word, it [...]