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Author Archives: paulschreiber
Memory shopping
Rich: Oh… another thing… what memory does the Macbook take? I was thinking about getting a single 512mb memory card (simm… dimm… whatever they’re called these days) Paul: DDR2 PC2-5300 667 MHz wooha. Rich: I’m guessing ‘wooha’ isn’t a technical spec. :-) But with all the Korean OEMs you can never tell.
Happy Canada Day!
Happy Canada Day, everyone! In honour of this, I’ll share a few facts about Canada. Here’s the first one: Most Americans don’t know Canada is their biggest oil supplier: A new poll suggests that only a tiny minority of Americans — four per cent — know that Canada is the largest supplier of crude oil …
My daily WTF
The Daily WTF is a great source for humorous (and sometimes unbelievable) technical blunders. About six years ago (before PEAR and such), I wrote a simple OO wrapper around PHP’s mail() function. I haven’t really touched the code, but I did slap a CC license on it last year. Today, I got this email: From: …
Blueberry muffins
Ingredients 1.75 cups flour 0.75 cup sugar 1.5 tsp. baking powder 0.5 tsp. baking soda 0.75 cup orange juice 0.25 cup oil (canola) 1 egg 1.5 cups blueberries Directions Preheat oven to 350 F. Combine dry ingredients in bowl. In a separate bowl, beat together orange juice, oil and eggs—use a fork or wisk. Combine …
Sending email from cell phones
With my old Nokia 6340i, sending email was as easy as sending a text message — you selected Messages > Write e-mail in the menu, entered the email address, subject, text, and off it went. When I got my 6620, I was disappointed to find out that feature had been removed. Sending an email now …
Funny stories from England
British girl describes (in hilarious manner) her (mis)adventures. Stoeis include how to travel by coach, avoid “religious nutters,” and what to do when approached by women carrying clipboards. read more | digg story
report smoking vehicles
I’ve called 1-800-EXHAUST a couple times, but it’s good to know bay area residents can report smoking vehicles online as well.
LAX “security”
Qantas Airways chairman Margaret Jackson was detained and frisked at LAX last year: She said her briefcase had contained detailed plans of a new aircraft, including cross-section diagrams showing seat layouts, Australian newspaper the Herald Sun newspaper reported Wednesday. “The guy said ‘Why have you got all of this?’,” she said. “And I said, ‘I’m …
security screeners don’t
Bruce Schneier brings more bad news about US airport “security”: It seems like every time someone tests airport security, airport security fails. In tests between November 2001 and February 2002, screeners missed 70 percent of knives, 30 percent of guns and 60 percent of (fake) bombs. And recently (see also this), testers were able to …