http://dryice.name/blog Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:01:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I reached Joe Gregorio's blog today when looking around the net. And besides the nice animation, the author has a clever way to fight blog spams. I'm quoting his/her words below: You must enter your name followed by something in parentheses, either an email address or the URI of your web site. ... http://dryice.name/blog/misc/new-way-to-fight-blog-spams/ Thanks to my wife, I've got a new LCD: Dell 2007FP. I know wide screen are popular these days, but I still prefer this one: It comes with 1600x1200, which is much better than the 1650x1050 of 22' wide screen LCDs for programming. I know the 1960x1200 24' is good, but ... http://dryice.name/blog/misc/dell-2007fp/ Well it's Xmas time and time for gift. I've got a Samsung NV10 for my wife as Xmas gift. Though I think I'll use it more :) This little toy got 10M pixels on a 1/1.8" Type CCD. The CCD and the Schneider lens is what attact my most. And I ... http://dryice.name/blog/misc/samsung-nv10/ Well, although I have no problem using IPod on my FreeBSD box, I got another question: my wife want to manager her IPod on her company notebook, which runs Windows and not allowed to install iTunes. After some digging on the Internet, I found Yet another iPod manager. It runs on ... http://dryice.name/blog/misc/ipod-again/ Well this is boring.... And I decide to remove it to get a clear page :) Share This http://dryice.name/blog/misc/remove-adsense/ Well I've seen lots of google adsense around, and put one on my blog. Let's see if this can offer my Internet access fee :) Share This http://dryice.name/blog/misc/google-adsense/ When I started my PC today as usual, it complains that it can't find my boot disk. (I have a 200G as boot disk and another 80G disk). I did a reboot, and now it complains "invalid partition" "Fine", I think, it must be the connector. Then I openned the box, ... http://dryice.name/blog/misc/scared-myself/ Well I hurt my finger last night while cooking, the broken is small, but right on the top of the middle finger of the right hand. And I do realize how important the fingers mean to a programmer. That finger is in charge of "i", "k", and the "," key, which ... http://dryice.name/blog/misc/what-the-finger-mean-to-a-programmer/ Well I said google_reader is nice yesterday, I found some problem with it: Its interval between grab the feed is too high. And it lost some of the posts on high traffic sites. For example, the feed for verycd is first updated at 3:19 AM today. This means the update interval ... http://dryice.name/blog/misc/google-reader-losing-post/ Google has updated their RSS reader recently. Many reviewers on the net said this makes it "more like a traditional reader". I agree. However, Google provides some unique featers. The one I like most is the keyboard shortcut. This makes the reading much convience. I can even pick with channel to ... http://dryice.name/blog/misc/google-reader/