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Entries from September 2008

A much needed Virus

September 26th, 2008 · No Comments · The Web

Unlike the vast majority of computer viruses (virii?), this one would actually be a good thing.

Brought to you by the brilliant xkcd.

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Server troubles

September 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Blah

There have been some problems with the database server hosting this site in the last couple of days.

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Hit by “attack”

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments · The Web

I logged in to my mail today and found a dozen notifications of new user registrations — I have things set up so that I get an email whenever anybody registers an account on this site. While its exciting to see so many subscribers actually taking the time to register on my site, I was suspicious from the get-go. Call me paranoid, but read on.

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Currency Conversion with Ubiquity

September 6th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Code

I’ve been playing around with Ubiquity since the day it came out, and I’ve been working on making some routine tasks easier with it.
This time, its a currency conversion command that will get the current approximate value of one currency in terms of the other that you enter. An example command that will convert, say, [...]

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Happy Ramadan!

September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Thought

Wishing a very happy and blessed Ramadan to everyone all over the World!
It’s a time meant for inward thought and reflection — a time to teach yourself self-restraint and learn to last a (large part of the) day fasting, which is much more than just not eating anything.
The card you see on the right was [...]

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