March 2010
2 posts
Open Sourcing Music →
Twitter Desktop Application Devs: Please, Please,... →
October 2009
1 post
Welcome to TechReevu! →
I’m pleased to announce TechReevu, a new venture from my friends at the Morontown Group. They are creating a tech blog, which they have asked me to contribute to. As I take it, the blog isn’t…
September 2009
6 posts
StackOverflow Trilogy Stickers Have Arrived →
The League of Justice (i.e. the StackOverflow trilogy) stickers arrived today in the mail! YAY YAY YAY! Somehow or other, there were two StackOverflow stickers, along with a ServerFault and SuperUser…
Querying the StackOverflow Data Dump Online with... →
Every month, StackOverflow, the brilliant and completely open question and answer site for programmers, releases a Creative-Commons licensed dump of their database. You can download this huge dump…
The iPhone Configuration Utility 2.0 – a Great... →
I was surfing around on SuperUser today, and found a mention to a tool from Apple that I hadn’t heard of before. It’s called the iPhone Configuration Utility, which allows you to examine logs from…
Ordering StackOverflow Trilogy Stickers! →
On Tuesday, the awesome guys at Stack Overflow finally gave us addicted users a chance to receive some trilogy stickers! A few weeks ago, they received their order of 40,000 StackOverflow,…
(Almost) Destroying Explorer.exe, AGAIN →
Today, somehow or other, I stumbled upon the distributed processing app called GIGRIB. Developed by Pingdom, “Pingdom GIGRIB is a unique, distributed website monitoring service. GIGRIB users can add…
Google’s 11th Birthday As a Company is Tomorrow →
Tomorrow, the 4th of September, marks the 11th year passed since the founding of the Google corporation, one of the most influential technology companies in the world. In 1998 on this very day,…
August 2009
4 posts
Come on, already →
Look, Apple, you’ve gone too far (why else are many of my blog posts about you?). And the FCC is there to kick your face in. Just accept the Google Voice app already. You know you’re going to be…
Watch Out, Apple →
The anti-trust community is all over Google, these days, says an article in the August 2009 issue of Wired Magazine. Fred Vogelstein tells readers that the search giant is the new Microsoft –…
Bad Design: Sensors Gone Mad [Rant] →
Automatic sinks, hand driers, soap dispensers, and more may seem like a dream come true, but this is not always the case. The construction of such a contraption is very simple – you need to create…
The Twitpocalypse Returns →
In my last post, I explained what truly went on in the Twitpocalypse, which dealt with tweet IDs passing the limits of the 32-bit signed integer (from -2,147,483,647 to +2,147,483,647), which is the…
July 2009
11 posts
An Explanation of the Averted Twitpocalypse →
Numerous friends have asked me about this whole Twitpocalypse thing, as they just don’t get it. “What’s this whole deal with signed integers?”, they ask. Well I’m here to clear that up, as I do…
Apple: No More Tethering on AT&T, No More Pre... →
Apple recently released new versions of the iPhone and iTunes SDK. The main purpose of these updates is not to add or improve new features, but to remove some major holes in their software.
Another…
Microsoft Faculty Summit 2009 (10th Anniversary) →
This year, I attended the 2-day Microsoft Faculty Summit 2009 at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. This was my first time ever visiting such an awesome company as Microsoft, and I was very amazed…
NaBloPoMo 2009 →
Hello everyone! A few days ago, I read about NaBloPoMo on the WordPress blog, and guess what? I’m interested! Well, NaBloPoMo stands for National Blog Posting Month (inspired by NaNoWriMo, or…
Seattle – Microsoft Faculty Summit, Day 1 →
Yesterday, I arrived in Seattle for this year’s Microsoft Faculty Summit, my relative accompanying me. Of course, I tweeted (hashtag #facsum) about the sessions I attended today, and took pictures of…
Twitter link now added to this blog →
Hi readers!
I’m not sure if I mentioned that I’m pretty active on Twitter, with over 750 followers currently, and I just added a link to my Twitter account on the sidebar to the right for convenience…
Going to Microsoft Faculty Summit conference in... →
Early in the morning tomorrow, I’m getting on a flight to Seattle, WA, for a conference at Microsoft with my relative, and I’m travelling as the guest. Yayz! Well, I’m hefting my laptop, iTouch,…
Should I Switch Themes? →
Hi everyone! Today, I’m pondering whether to switch my current blog theme to Vigilance, from my current monochrome theme Unsleepable, but the thing is, I like both of them! So it is up to you readers…
Implementing GUP in ASP.NET →
You may or may not have heard of GUP, but it is used in numerous programming projects for updating purposes. GUP is an acronym for Generic Updater, and it was originally developed for NotePad++, one…
Designing “User-Friendly” Public Restrooms →
While being one of the most least discussed topics in architecture and design, but arguably one of the most important ones, public restrooms are HARD to design, because they must be “user-friendly”….
Another Nasty IE Bug →
Plain and simple, I detest Internet Explorer. Why, some may ask? Internet Explorer is a retarded browser whose proprietary graphic rendering engine sucks, whose scripting engine fails, whose security…
June 2009
13 posts
C#: Handling Cookies in a Series of HttpWebRequest... →
I’ve always wanted to experiment with creating “sessions” on websites to mimic real users browsing and using a site, and I’ve finally gotten around to a project that involves this: my goal is to…
Using .NET Reflector to Improve Code Efficiency →
If you’re a .NET developer, admit it: you’ve at least once felt curious about how the underlying APIs behind the .NET Framework are coded, how certain functions are implemented, or whether one core…
Drop.io Site Redesign →
Today, the layout on the homepage of the popular private file sharing service Drop.io was altered and redesigned. The new interface has a more concise aesthetic with graphical excellence. Some of the…
USB Laser Guided Missile Launcher from ThinkGeek... →
ThinkGeek has updated the warfare category of their catalog with a new USB-powered missile launcher. Its perks: it has a built-in laser to guide the missiles, it has a very powerful software…
Another Helpful Twitter Tool: TweetShrink →
TweetShrink is another tool that I’ve found to be very helpful in frequent tweeting. It takes your original tweet and simplifies phrases into their shorthand versions to minimize the size of the…
Twitterrific 2.2 Released – Twitpocalypse... →
For all you iPhone/iTouch users who are hooked on Twitter just like I am, and who’ve found that Twitterrific 2.o is probably the best Twitter client for the iPhone platform, you’re probably angry…
Cool strobist photo: Ball pit of madness. →
Ball pit of madness.
I found this cool photo of Dustin Diaz, a photographer I dig who publishes new strobist photographs every day in a series of 365 photographs, along with their respective setups….
Exploring Another New Topic: PHOTOGRAPHY!!! →
In addition to programming, I have decided to begin share information about photography thru this blog, as I’m really into creative and emotional photography. I will post information regarding…
Exploring a new topic thru this blog: PROGRAMMING →
As you quite well know, I’m an avid programmer, but I haven’t really shared anything regarding programming on this blog. So today, I’m pleased to announce that I will begin to write and share…
Twitterrific 2.0 Lightning Review! →
In recent times, as Twitter has become increasingly popular, the demand for rich media applications that post to Twitter from the iPhone and iPod Touch platform has also risen. Many such applications…
Adding a FavIcon to your WordPress.Com Blog! →
Wordpress.com blogs have always lacked the feature of adding a custom favicon to a blog, which minimizes the possible level of customization. For those who don’t know what a favicon is, it’s the logo…
How to Easily Create Screenshots on a PC with... →
There are many different ways to take a screenshot, but I recently discovered one of the most convenient ones: a little program named Gadwin PrintScreen. You can get it a…
Get email or RSS deliveries of new and cool posts... →
I am proud to annouce that finally, RSS and email delivery features have been added to this blog. After all, the blog was named Absolutely2Nothing for a reason! All you have to do is click the Get…
May 2009
5 posts
WordPress.com: Adding a Digg Button (Simpler than... →
Remember the inefficiencies of this blog post? After a few days of suffering, I figured it out with the help of customer service! So, here goes… Adding A Digg Button – Like you see at the right…
So…
Creating “Add To” Buttons With Ease on a... →
WordPress.com blogs don’t allow you to use plugins and javascript, so it’s difficult to let your users easily submit your post to a social network or link directory. Yet, GetSocial (download here)…
Adding a Simple Retweet Widget to Your Site →
While Twitter is speedily rising in popularity, companion or helper sites are springing up all over the place, and there are
already a few that collect the most retweeted updates, with options to…
Cool Site: Wordle - A New Way to Create Word... →
A site called Wordle.net has become increasingly popular recently. It allows pepople to create so called “word clouds” - the user pastes in a bunch of text, and then a Java applet eats it all up and…
New Nikon DSLR released: Nikon D5000 →
Nikon has just released a new DSLR, the D5000. As always, there are some cool new features, and some major hassles and disappointments. Hit the break to find out more. Nikon’s D5000 is a 12.3MP DSLR…
April 2009
2 posts
Post to Twitter from work without anyone noticing... →
Elliott Kember, whom you can follow on Twitter at @elliottkember, has released a new Twitter client running on the Adobe AIR framework perfectly suited for allowing you to escape detection while…
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