Author: joelh

Check out this flash Need For Speed Canyon Racer a friend of mine made for work.

A fascinating article on what Vista is going to do to PC hardware. Especially of interest to Windows Zealots to which I know there are a lot (and some of my closest friends – *sniff*). I don’t consider myself a linux zealot but the implications this has for linux in the future make me very…

As recommended by a friend I have started using HN_CAPTCHA to validate humans. The adventure began when I noticed that the amount of money I had in my account was rapidly dwindling away to nothing. Now my hosting provider is amazingly cheap so I initially had no explanation as to what was causing the approximately…

Up on Ebay, for a small 30K it can be yours.

I logged in to my management interface only to find that one of my pages was now one megabyte in size (thats raw text baby booyah) and that I was doing 1gb in transfer a month. This was because spammers had spammed the hell out of my comments section. Until I get a chance to…

Press alt+”.” to get the second argument of the last command. Genius!

As many of you now know I have decided to become a scientologist. It took a long time for me to decide this was the path for me but I was greatly aided by watching this short video and reading about Lisa McPherson. What a bunch of jerks.

The coolest thing out there right now is still Amarok an itunes-ish clone. Version 1.3 was buggy as well and would crash every second song. Version 1.4 is a massive improvement, has a professional sexy UI (with great fonts), actually interesting dynamic playlists and is just fun to navigate and have open. Its python based…

Papa’s got a brand new bag. SSH 4.3 has the ability to use the tun/tap driver to establish true VPN connections between two hosts that you 0wnz0r (have root). What this means is that I can at work connect to my home network and bridge the two together such that either my work computer can…

To raise awareness about prostate cancer and men’s health I am growing a mo for Movember. Early surveys of female friends indicate that it is likely to be lonely month but I’m enjoying it already. Did you know: Men are far less healthy than women. The average life expectancy of males is 6 years less…