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Posted by on 14th December, 2006

Everything about snowflakes

Everything about snowflakes

Snow is truly a magical natural phenomena. Countless of snowflakes fall from the sky during a snowfall and each one of them is truly unique. Some people hate the winters and snow, others, like myself, just love it. It adds a sense of undisturbed beauty and calm to any landscape. But there is much more beneath a layer of snow. This site explains and shows everything you wanted to know about snowflakes. If that is not enough make sure you check out the 36,000x magnification of a snowflake. Truly amazing stuff… [button link=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 11th December, 2006

The OpenScience Project

The OpenScience Project

Somehow I stumbled upon this site and found it quite interesting, especially the decent amount of (free) software in each of the specializations. If you have an interest in any of the fields of science, check it out… “The OpenScience project is dedicated to writing and releasing free and Open Source scientific software. We are a group of scientists, mathematicians and engineers who want to encourage a collaborative environment in which science can be pursued by anyone who is inspired to discover something new about the natural world.” [button link=”http://www.openscience.org” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 10th December, 2006

Behave at the Office Party this year

Behave at the Office Party this year

Many promising careers have been damaged beyond repair or even sunken into an abyss by standing too close to the fruitpunch bowl at the Holiday Office Party. Protect yourself from self destruction by following these simple, common-sense steps and make a better impression than the guy everyone will be talking about the next Monday… [button link=”http://wlb.monster.com/articles/parties/” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 8th December, 2006

25 Funniest Analogies

25 Funniest Analogies

Analogy is either the cognitive process of transferring information from a particular subject (the analogue or source) to another particular subject (the target), or a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process. In a narrower sense, analogy is an inference or an argument from a particular to another particular, as opposed to deduction, induction, and abduction, where at least one of the premises or the conclusion is general (Wikipedia). Anyways, those are the serious ones, if anyone is interested. Here are some of the funniest analogies I have ever read… [button link=”http://writingenglish.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/the-25-funniest-analogies-collected-by-high-school-english-teachers/” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 6th December, 2006

A ton of Javascript How-To

A ton of Javascript How-To

When needing a particular Javascript function, I know where to find it….usually Google it or any of my many reference books. However, Googling it may not return the most accurate results and my reference books have many other topics, which may make it difficult to find. I keep a collection of links to many topics with useful tips, tricks and frequently used functions. This here is a large collection of quick How-To’s of you most common Javascript questions. [button link=”http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/index.phtml/fid/130″ color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 1st October, 2006

Simple, yet brilliant way to multiply

Simple, yet brilliant way to multiply

Very clever way to multiply any numbers by using lines, single digit numbers and their intersections. It is quite interesting and easy to use. It will make you wonder, how did they do that and why didn’t anyone think of this before? [button link=”http://www.glumbert.com/media/multiply” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 28th July, 2006

All-in-one, Personalized Homepage

All-in-one, Personalized Homepage

With so much information to search for and somehow wanting to squeeze it all between 1400 and 1050 pixels, it is becoming hard to find an application or site aggregator that does it well. I had been using My Yahoo for a while and although I wasn't necessarily thrilled with it, it did the job and did it decently. I have tried others as well, such as My MSN and even blogged about Google Personalized and Microsoft's Start a while back. I started using pageflakes for a while, but noticed it would lock up and its performance was less than satisfactory. The other competitors I found were: Goowy and Protopage, I didn't think I would write about it again until I found NetVibes. A very well designed Ajax-based, all in one, personalized homepage that you can arrange at will with as many blog feeds, news feeds, weather reports, financial information as you will. There are a good amount of widgets as well to choose from. It also offers a...

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Posted by on 5th May, 2006

Google Sketchup 3D software

Google Sketchup 3D software

Google SketchUp is a free, easy-to-learn 3D-modeling program with a few simple tools to let you create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects, and even space ships. You can add details, textures, and glass to your models, and design with dimensional accuracy. You can place your finished models in Google Earth, share them with others by posting them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies. Google SketchUp is a great way to discover if 3D modeling is right for you. [button link=”http://sketchup.google.com” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 12th March, 2006

Google maps now includes Mars

Google maps now includes Mars

Google Mars allows you to view Mars three ways, by elevation, by "visible" and by infrared. Google has plotted points by Regions, Mountains, Plains Spacecraft, Canyons, Ridges, Stories, Dunes, and Craters. They have plans to add a Google Earth like desktop feature for Mars in the future. [button link=”http://www.google.com/mars/” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 22nd February, 2006

Server move

Server move

I am having my site moved to a new .NET 2.0 server. I will be posting some ASP.NET 2.0 experiment shortly, but in the meantime I have to pack everything up and prepare for the move. Some experiments may be offline for a while, while I figure out how I got them to work in the first place and modify whatever I need to do to make them work again… note: some experiments may cease to work all together since I used to have ColdFusion on the old server and did some CF experiments several years...

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