Monthly Archives April 2005

Zeroconf for seamless networking…

I have HP’s all in one device which is ethernet enabled. So all computers on the LAN can print to it/scan from it etc. The printer seems to use DHCP server to acquire the IP address and did not provide any name to the DHCP server. The windows version of software managed to detect the [...]

Amazon’s “Statistically Improbable Phrases”

Amazon.com has quitely introduced this concept of “Statistically Improbably Phrases” (SIP’s). They scan the entire books (with the permission of publisher/authors) for users to be able to “search inside” the book. During this they do some analysis of some phrases that occur frequently in the book, which otherwise does not occur outside of that book. [...]

Greasemonkey: Control your web!

Greasemonkey is a plugin for Firefox browser that lets you assign DHTML scripts to various domains. What’s the big deal you ask ? This lets you correct some annoying problems some websites have or even add some nice features to your regular websites.
There are tons of user contributed scripts for doing fun things, [...]

wordpress themes

Interesting wordpress themes from www.alexking.org
:
Clasikue
Connections
Dark Maple
Elvgren
Fasttrack
Greenwood
Head (3 column layout)
Jakarta (Cool javascript hacks for align, smaller/bigger font etc.)
Neuron (Collapsible menus)
rdc*Theme
Red Train
Rin
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Currently reading…

Currently the following books are on my reading shelf:

How To Make Money In Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad is written by William J. O’Neil, who is the founder of Investor’s Business Daily. In addition to pitching IBD (which is good BTW), he outlines his method of picking the winning stocks to [...]

Visa Stuff to remind me later…

Consulate SFO web page
Visa camp in LA
Bank of America (for emergency Cashier’s check)
Bank Of America
13905 Pioneer Blvd
Norwalk, CA
Phone: (562) 868-1448
UPS store:
Address: 4067 Hardwick St, Lakewood, CA 90712
Phone: (562) 408-2383

Rebate tracker use cases

Use cases for rebate tracker script.