I've decided to try moving my career more in the direction of freelancing consulting. It's party based on necessity (haven't found a full-time job yet) and partly on want (consulting/freelancing is very interesting). First step has been to make some info available about it - currently only ...
read moreNot long ago, the battery in my Dell XPS M1330 decided it was time to die. Apparently, I had hit the wall: my battery which would run fine for an hour and 20 minutes, just died - one day to the next. No warning signs. Nothing. What's a geek to ...
read moreThird in the line of posts on sorting algorithms (first was Bubble Sort and the second was Insertion Sort) is the Shell Sort. This is basically a variant of the insertion sort, with the difference that you're sorting the array multiple times. Another way of looking at this is ...
read moreExtending my knowledge on SEO I was getting acquainted with some FireFox plugins (SEO for Firefox, yExplore, and SEOpen) when I happened upon the related search. Specifically, I did a related:http://plind.dk/ search on Google. The result? Hit #9 is 'Suicide: Read This First' and #10 is 'I ...
read moreBecause I'm freelancing for my previous employer, telecommuting in effect, I've become a big fan of screen. I didn't see the benefit of using the program at first, but when you're logging into a machine with ssh and then have to log into one or two ...
read moreSecond up in the line of sorting algorithms I'll run through is the insertion sort algorithm. It's fairly different from the bubblesort algorithm in that bubblesort will go through every element that you're trying to sort and compare it with every other element (meaning, you're looking ...
read moreBIG BROTHER: UK to Mandate Personal Data Storage
Seems like Maria and I managed to leave the country just in time. This is so sick it's impossible to believe, especially coming from the country of the author that gave us 1984. Seems he ended up being more right than ...
read moreIn Sorting algorithms: bubblesort I started working on implementations of different sorting algorithms. The first obviously being bubble sort. I hadn't worked up a proper framework for the implementations though, so the implementation was just a flat file - not great for reusing code. Seeing as I plan to do ...
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