Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
Hubble finds oxygen, carbon in faraway planet’s atmosphere The planet, nicknamed Osiris and known as HD 209458b, is a gas giant 150 lightyears from Earth. It orbits a star similar to the sun. This happen WAY faster than I expected.
Dave (aka Scripting News): writes about Orkut being their identity system. jeremy.zawodny speculates along similar lines as well. (actually jeremy was there first) They should not forget August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web on Continue reading The Orkut Identity system
Microsoft finally released a patch for a dangerous vulnerability that lets attackers trick Internet users into visiting malicious sites. The flaw has been public knowledge for some time, but Microsoft (Security is Job None) failed to include a fix for Continue reading Fire up your Windows Update, Microsoft Patches Serious IE Flaw
IFILM Super Bowl Ads Everything but Janet Jackson. Pretty disappointing this year. I liked : MasterCard, Homer Gets His Errands Done; FedEx : Alien Shipping (“All you need to Know”) (although Elicia loves their MBA commercial); the 7UP, Delivery Truck Continue reading 2004 Super Bowl Ads
Nice piece : ONLamp.com: MySQL Crash Course, Part 3 , basic selects and joins. (a review is always nice). And I saw something new : The “LIMIT” clause mysql> SELECT * FROM authors LIMIT 1; LIMIT (not part of SQL92, Continue reading More MySQL Crash Course