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Windows product key sticker

Windows product key sticker

When you post your review on YouTube be sure not to capture the Windows OEM product key. And if you do be sure not to upload a High Definition video.

Dumb Picasa Installer

Dumb Picasa Installer

Me: Hi, I would like to install you.
Picasa: OK, great. This installer will automatically use Romanian based on you location. Who cares if your default language is English. Heck, I won’t even give you the option to switch languages.
Me: Oh well, I’ll just change that later.
Picasa: I’m done installing. Let’s run Picasa for the first [...]

Laptop rants

Laptop rants

After 2 years of being the owner of a Dell XPS M1330 here are some thoughts about it and about laptops in general.

Autoformat MXML and AS in Flex Builder

Autoformat MXML and AS in Flex Builder

Adobe Flex Builder does not come with an autoformat feature by default. There is a nice eclipse plugin for this.

Travian is using Age of Empires screenshots

Travian is using Age of Empires screenshots

I came across a somewhat familiar picture inside an advertisement on Facebook:

What is your webiste worth?

What is your webiste worth?

There are some useless (yet fun) websites that try to calculate a website’s value based only on the domain name. Let’s see how much would a random website (ylipsis.com) cost:

Coding habit

Q: How can you tell you’re coding too much?
A: You try to hit autoformat (ctrl+shift+F in Eclipse) after each line you write in Microsoft Word.

Breaking news stereotype

Concerning every tv station worldwide that had a news report about the recent death of Michael Jackson, this comic written by John Campbell is pure genious: http://stereotypist.livejournal.com/131545.html.

WiredTree VPS 384 under load

WiredTree VPS 384 under load

One of the first question I had prior to moving to WiredTree’s VPS 384 plan was how much traffic would it be able to handle. An answer came on June 14th when someone submitted a page from a website I have on this VPS to reddit where it stood on the first page for almost [...]

Laughing time

Laughing time

marketing and sexuality
How to Use Twitter for Marketing and PR
The Vendor Client relationship – in real world situations via David Airey