December 2006 Archives

The installer packages Shane Careveo's Fast-CGI ISAPI filter in conjuction with Ionic's Rewrite ISAPI filter and my IIS scripts to allow for integration with IIS under Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. This is a complete solution for hosting your Ruby Ra

"This is reality-check research," said the study's author, Lawrence Finer. "Premarital sex is normal behavior for the vast majority of Americans, and has been for decades."

The children in the program did indeed read more books than other children. But after the program ended, when reading no longer paid off in pizza, those children read far fewer books than others. Their own intrinsic desire to read books had been subsumed

Read Happy Hour is 9 to 5 completely free in your browser.

free software updates for one and all

Gourmet, handmade chocolatecookie/confections that look just like real sushi!

ImageScience is a clean and happy Ruby library that generates thumbnails -- and kicks the living crap out of RMagick.

A zoom layout uses CSS (cascading stylesheets) to automatically reformat a page so it’s easier for a low-vision user to read. Multiple columns become single columns, navigation gets simplified and put at the top, fonts become bigger, and (usually) colou

a nifty online tool for setting your browser size while doing Web design

GMailUI is an extension to Thunderbird (versions 0.8 - 1.5.0.x) which add concepts inspired by GMail to Thunderbird, like archiving mail and powerful message searching across all folders. Select a folder to be your sole "archive" folder, or choose to have

For the month of November, I’m only spending $30 on food. The only exception will be things that are freely available to the average person (salt taken from restaurants, sauce packets from Taco Bell, free coffee from an office). Buying in advance is fin

Installing Windows updates without an internet connection

# Do you enjoy getting on your bike and discovering new places? # Are you the type that embraces adventure?

Heart Disease 1 in 5, Motor Vehicle Accident 1 in 84 & Motorcycle accident 1 in 1008, Motorcycle for better odds :)

HealthMonitor is a free powerful and featureful monitoring tool for Windows. It works as a Windows Service, monitor system performances/thresholds (CPU load average, free memory, disk space, Event Viewer...) and handle specific check plugin (Check HTTP,

Researchers (Hayes, Bloom) have shown it takes about ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas, including chess playing, music composition, painting, piano playing, swimming, tennis, and research in neuropsychology and topology.

Script to write SQL queries from email

Creammonkey add Greasemonkey like user scripting to Apple Safari, which implemented as an InputManager bundle.

Here are 113 10x10 greyscale icons in .gif format to fill up your stocking with - the next instalment of my mini icon collection, which has been steadily growing over the last year.

Could be really good or really bad.

This tutorial is intended to give a very basic introduction to using the Zend Framework to write a very basic database driven application.

Canadian citizen Maher Arar, who is barred from entering the United States, delivered his acceptance speech for the Letelier-Moffitt International Human Rights Award in a pre-recorded videotape. This is a transcript of his speech, which was viewed at the

Figure out what work activities turn them on and off. Listen and Care.

Commentary on the differences between Apple ads and culture between the US and Japan.

Motorcycle seats, luggage and protection

Reflective stuff for mortocycling

Experts say one of the most alluring sleep distractions is the 24-hour accessibility of the internet.

Lazy mirror is FreeWare for Microsoft Windows XP, 2003, 2000, NT, ME, 98 and 95. It copies changes made to one or more sources and archives the previous versions of the copied files. If all storage allocated to a destination has been consumed, the oldest

In technical terms, DeltaCopy is a "Windows Friendly" wrapper around the Rsync program, currently maintained by Wayne Davison. "rsync" is primarily designed for Unix/Linux/BSD systems. Although ports are available for Windows, they typicall require downlo