TechnoMagicians Blog

Looks like Yahoo released a new firefox extension for del.icio.us. It really integrates with the browser now with tons of very nice features. For some reason the actual del.icio.us website does not reference this version but you can get it from here – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3615/

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What is it with the fascination of that TV game show “Deal or No Deal”? Is North America really reduced to this level of mindless television? Is there anything remotely interesting about this show? I was able to stomach approximately 5 minutes of this show before vowing never to watch it again. How is it […]

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Paul Tyma, creator of the great service Mailinator wrote a post about the architecture of the system. The reason I point to it is because of the simplicity/beauty of the system. Here is a short couple quotes: At this point, Mailinator averages approximately 2.5million emails per day. I have seen hourly spikes that would result […]

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As with Ross, I rarely blog about politics and crapola like this but I found his quote to potentially be the quote of the year for 2006 when describing Sadam Hussein: “He was,” I finished. “As ruthless and terrible as Hitler, but far less successful.” And then Ross went on to say: I'm blogging this […]

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Interesting post from John Romero about NeXT being used in the early Id Software days. I remember checking out and wanting a NeXT machine around 1990 timeframe. And somehow I didn't realize or totally forgot that NeXTStep became Cocoa.

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I see this all the time on forums, mailing lists, newsgroups and so called expert knowledge websites. Folks responding to a problem without really answering the question but giving all kinds of useless suggestions on the way they THINK someone should be doing something. Here is a great example of a completely useless response from […]

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Another BlogChat type thing. I think it uses flash but looks nice.

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From Techdirt: You would think that it wouldn't be that hard to track down phishing scammers. While they do try to hide themselves, in the end, there should be some sort of money trail leading back to them. However, for all the talk of trying to track these guys down, it seemed like no one […]

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Brent points out a joke of a patent (Patent 6941562) this time hitting very close to home: Beyond the obviousness, inspection of both the client and server side code for the patent reveals that most of it is copied directly from my JSRS library, published a year earlier, not only without attribution, but claiming it […]

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It is being reported lately that spammers are using lesser known domains in their links in spam messages. See this article for example. In the article they state: Using a lesser-known top level domain changes the game and makes it harder to distinguish spam from legitimate e-mail by examining the links in the e-mails. They […]

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