Yostivanich

Some fun­da­men­tal facts about soft­ware engineering.

That’s a smart move.

Neat new jQuery based time selector.

Sex­ism is still a very real and stu­pid problem.

Fig­ure out if a photo is porn or not in an auto­mated fash­ion is an extremely hard if not impos­si­ble problem.

Devel­op­ing for mobile devices.

Mak­ing energy from basi­cally just dirt.

iPhone could actu­ally get teth­er­ing, nor­mal rules apply but oth­er­wise looks pretty good.

Another record but it looks to be slow­ing. What hap­pens when the Chi­nese and Amer­i­can economies slow down at the same time?

Looks like there could be a flaw in the iPhone’s secu­rity based on the dynamic “default.png” that appli­ca­tions use on start-up.

“The Adi­pos­i­tiv­ity Project aims to pro­mote size accep­tance, not by list­ing the mer­its of big peo­ple, or detail­ing exam­ples of excel­lence (these things are eas­ily seen all around us), but rather, through a visual dis­play of fat phys­i­cal­ity. The sort that’s nor­mally unseen.

The hope is to widen def­i­n­i­tions of phys­i­cal beauty. Literally. ”

Google Chat now has video and voice capa­bil­i­ties, not all that impres­sive ones, but it has it.

What doesn’t Google know?

Sol­diers are required to pay for rape kits as they are purely for crim­i­nal inves­ti­ga­tion and not health or psy­cho­log­i­cally necessary.

So which is it?

The first Con­gres­sional plan for uni­ver­sal health care comes front and forward.

Only took MS 7 or 8 years to patch a flaw in Samba that allowed a user on the same net­work to take over a computer.

Obama essen­tially won’t let lob­by­ists be part of his tran­si­tion or they have to agree not to lobby the admin­is­tra­tion for a year after the inauguration.

The fed­eral gov­ern­ment tries to reas­sure stu­dent loans.

This isn’t good for the two countries.

All it needed was $140mil to keep nor­mal rations for Zimbabwe.

Great for every­body to fol­low all the dif­fer­ent con­ver­sa­tions about their article/blog post, or whatever.

Most books aren’t removed and instead are han­dled by the library privately.

Crazy a way to pick up fin­ger­prints and to read let­ters while still in the orig­i­nal envelope.

AIG is lit­er­ally at the guillotine.

Ouch.

Not much to report from new browsers in terms of their CSS support.