Ran into this problem a couple of months ago, when we saw some strange dates in production. So I dug into the Java library sources (thank you Sun for providing those!) and found that Date objects aren’t always “normalized”. Rather, sometimes a “denormalized” value is stored which is later ...

Lately I’ve been experimenting with some simple cooking, and of course for cooking you need cooking equipment. TigerChef is one of the many sources of cooking equipment you can get, although they are oriented more at restaurants than individual needs.

Anyway, I’m quite happy with the initial experiments ...

Documenting here for posterity, since I didn’t find much information about it on the ‘net:

Disclaimer: I’m not a network head, just an amateur who dabbles with it when he needs to fix a problem.

Given one Ninjabox (the nickname for packet capture boxes from Endace) with a ...

The purpose of this website is to offer prebookable Airport taxi transfers. This means that you can rent a transportation method to/from the airport before you even embark on your journey.

Is it worth it? I have to admit that I’m far from being a big traveler, but ...

Recently there have been quite a few copyright-related posts which came up in my feedreader. This is of course a complicated and layered problem which can’t be solved in the couple of paragraphs of this blogpost, but at least I can post a bunch of great materials which should ...

This again is the case of a couple of links on the same topic piling up in my reader (this tends to happen if you take a pause in blogging :-)):

• Gmail’s Spam Filter No Longer Effective?
• 60% of Facebook users consider quitting over privacy
• Poll: 93% say Facebook should ...

I’ve done a writeup about the name of blog when I started it. However recently two links came up in my Google Alerts:

The first one is from Urban Dictionary and it defines hype free as “Slang word for drug free”.

The second one is from Yahoo! Answers and ...

In the last couple of weeks I had at least two cases where I saw a (provocative) post come up in my feedreader, click trough to read the entire piece (BTW, partial feeds just suck!), just to find that the owner removed the post. The first was from the DynDNS ...

“eval” (short for evaluate) is usually the name given to the method in dynamic languages which makes it possible for the programmer to access the compiler / runtime. Here are a few links to the documentation for the function in different languages:

• Javascript
• Perl
• PHP
• Python
• Ruby
• LUA

They are usually ...

A small PSE (Public Service Announcement): if you were using the Blogger Tag Cloud I’ve put together based on the WP-Cumulus plugin, you might have noticed that it stopped working some time ago (I’m not entirely sure when, since I didn’t notice it, until a reader ...