Ontario Distance Calculator
Ever want to know how far apart two places in Ontario are? The Government of Ontario thought you might: Ontario Distance Calculator.
That links shows that Española, Ontario is a mere 930 Km. from Thunder Bay, Ontario, something I’ll need to know for this coming Saturday as I get into my cross-Canada move to Vancouver.
The Birth of VB ‘Variant’ Uncovered!
On and off in my career I’ve had cause to use Visual Basic and VBScript (and the bastard child ASP). All have been on the receiving end of much derision and scorn over the years for various, and often much warranted, reasons. One of my biggest peevs with VB was the Variant datatype. Big, unweildy, […]
Weird things my girlfriend types
We all type fast in IM and usually it’s just a letter here or there but every now and then my girlfriend manages to completely mystify me as to her meaning, for a moment, until I work out what was really intended. The game is afoot:
I have a bind fire
do very excited right now
with plastic […]
Firefox and “… is not a function’ Javascript Errors
If you’re calling a Javascript function from a form, say onSubmit(), and you keep getting this error in Firefox:
<functionname> is not a function
check to see if another element in your page, in my case the form itself, has the same name as the function you’re trying to call. If it does it seems that it […]
“Lost” USB Drives == Access Key
I absolutely love this:
We figured we would try something different by baiting the same employees that were on high alert. We gathered all the worthless vendor giveaway thumb drives collected over the years and imprinted them with our own special piece of software. I had one of my guys write a Trojan that, when run, […]
Mobile RSS Feeds: Obvious eh?
Says The Register:
THERE IS OBVIOUSLY a need for a version of RSS news feeds that will work on mobile phones. Ideally it would be a news ticker that scrolls across your handset’s default (idle) screen.
That would make it easier for news organisations to port their existing feeds to mobile devices. Don’t forget, there are way […]
Half Empty, Half Full
A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal’s enclosure, a zoo official said on Monday.
“The man shouted ‘God will save me, if he exists’, lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went […]
Drinking Beer in Brighton
Having a pint in the Fortune of War pub in Brighton, England before the WAEA conference starts tomorrow.