Did you know your prayers are already promised to you? Jesus says, in John 14:13-14, “Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.” Why, then, have we grown up, from childhood, with…
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Android “Froyo” 2.2 now available for Acer Liquid E
I upgraded to the Android “Froyo” 2.2 today and I’m very pleased with the upgrade process and the results.
Fixing your car key fobs with a knife, scissors, elastic, paper and super glue!
Update 2014-12-03: I have a new, better, simpler fix for this. Earlier this year the original solution I had stopped working. The problem is the electrical contacts (little circular pads for each button on the inside of the fob) were slowly disintegrating. You can tell because the black part is starting to wear through. While…
Super Glue
I often find myself using super glues to fix delicate things. I often think I can fix a circuit board, like say my car key fob, by faking soldering by using super glue to hold the metal contacts together. It’s not necessarily always successful. Everyone knows Krazy-brand glue and everyone also knows it’s pretty cheap stuff. It doesn’t really live up to its promises. So I googled around and I found some more options.
Firefox is winning me back!
I wrote earlier about how Chrome was winning me over. Well, after a brief fling, I’m back to Firefox and I now find it not so bad.
Chrome is winning me over!
Kudos to Google for their work on the Chrome browser. More and more I leave work at work and so my home computers don’t need all the extensions and features of firefox for web development. And so Google Chrome really, really growing on me.
Anti-Spam Done Right
Blog comment spam is a big problem. I started out with no protection on this blog. I found out rather quickly that wouldn’t do.
So I implemented a CAPTCHA which requires you to enter a random code to prevent automated comment submissions. Then I found out actual humans were submitting comments (or perhaps very smart anti-CAPTCHA programs).
My next step was disabling auto-approval unless you had one pre-approved comment. But that only resulted in me clearing out spam every day and discouraging real-time discussion because comments wouldn’t show up immediately. After a long time, I finally found Akismet.
Google: Nothing to hide? Nothing to fear!
Google, one of the legends that came with your company was Don’t Be Evil, but this quote from Google CEO Eric Schmidt is atrocious, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”
Google Public DNS
Google announced today the launch of Google Public DNS and it’s a boon to everyone under the tyranny of the brutal practice of your ISP hijacking DNS requests and spamming you with search+ads pages when a domain name really doesn’t exist.
Is gmail spamming us based on google searches?
Is gmail spamming us based on google searches?