http://people.etango.com/~wrodina/blog/ en-us 2005-11-17T14:12:50-05:00 http://people.etango.com/~wrodina/blog/archives/001250.html Spyware/adware is now my Least Favorite Thing.... tech.general wrodina 2005-11-17T14:12:50-05:00 http://people.etango.com/~wrodina/blog/archives/001204.html You enter a room that contains a table and two doors. Upon the table is a bundled stack of United States currency, totalling $1,000,000. One of the two doors, the one you entered through, is open. The second door is... thoughts wrodina 2005-09-23T00:20:16-05:00 http://people.etango.com/~wrodina/blog/archives/001203.html I have written an introductory article on the Ruby programming language. The first part of the article is posted on the Code.box.sk website: http://code.box.sk/newsread.php?newsid=948 There will be a second portion coming along as soon as I can finish it off.... tech.general wrodina 2005-09-20T10:37:51-05:00 http://people.etango.com/~wrodina/blog/archives/001178.html Dear News Media, Please stop asking. I have heard this question asked several times, by reporters from many different networks, and it is getting old. You have been told time and again, and the answer is significant. When interviewing search... thoughts wrodina 2005-09-08T13:21:31-05:00 http://people.etango.com/~wrodina/blog/archives/001168.html This whole issue just has my hackles up. This is an interesting read -- how gas prices work. Turns out that, while the overall dollar amount is the highest it's ever been, if you adjust for inflation we are actually... thoughts wrodina 2005-09-02T14:16:34-05:00 http://people.etango.com/~wrodina/blog/archives/001166.html And today on the way home, $3.19. This is all at the same gas station, one that tends to be average or lower in prices usually. Though my wife and I went to the store, and on the way passed... thoughts wrodina 2005-09-01T23:52:37-05:00 http://people.etango.com/~wrodina/blog/archives/001162.html Yesterday when I drove home from work, it was $2.79 a gallon. Today when I drove to work, it was $2.99.... thoughts wrodina 2005-09-01T08:41:41-05:00 http://people.etango.com/~wrodina/blog/archives/001158.html This weekend, I took advantage of my local supermarkets' "fuel perks" program, that allows you to accumulate reward points worth discounts on gasoline purchases (when you purchase gas at the affiliated gas stations). And I must say, I enjoyed the... thoughts wrodina 2005-08-29T12:50:40-05:00 http://people.etango.com/~wrodina/blog/archives/001143.html Technological singularity (or more commonly, the Singularity) has captured my attention of late. The idea of the Singularity is that there will come a point in the future where super-human intelligence is realized. At that point, all of our models... tech.general wrodina 2005-08-22T12:44:08-05:00 http://people.etango.com/~wrodina/blog/archives/001138.html Communicate. It's important. This way, you won't be surprised when "We're borrowing a steam cleaner for a couple spots on the carpet," turns into "I need you to shampoo the entire carpet tonight. And the dining room rug." I love... thoughts wrodina 2005-08-19T23:18:10-05:00 http://people.etango.com/~wrodina/blog/archives/001113.html The Dictionary.com website is one I use a lot to do a quick lookup of words while online. What I (finally) got around to doing is setting up a bookmarklet that allows me to highlight text on a web page,... tech.general wrodina 2005-08-04T10:37:44-05:00 http://people.etango.com/~wrodina/blog/archives/001099.html Site: The Daily WTF? URL: http://www.thedailywtf.com/ Summary: An amusing stroll through some wondrously pessimized program code For those not in the know, "WTF" is Internet shorthand for "What The ..." (I will leave "F" as an exercise for the reader).... tech.websites wrodina 2005-07-28T13:57:01-05:00 http://people.etango.com/~wrodina/blog/archives/001089.html I don't speak Perl, however I do understand the notion of a "regexp" or "regular expression" (they are used in many programming languages). For those not in the know, a regexp is a way you can use various symbols to... tech.general wrodina 2005-07-21T01:09:39-05:00 http://people.etango.com/~wrodina/blog/archives/001087.html Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box by Ryan Russell, et al. Published by Syngress Publishing, Inc. 2003 Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box is a couple years old, and is the first in a series of... books wrodina 2005-07-20T00:59:04-05:00 http://people.etango.com/~wrodina/blog/archives/001060.html Site: http://earth.google.com/ I just ran across Google Earth the other day. In short, it is a humdinger of a GIS application that combines aircraft/satellite imagery with a host of other data that you can overlay. For example, I wanted to... tech.software wrodina 2005-07-06T13:31:12-05:00