Archive for the ‘Breaktime’ Category

Chinese character flash cards

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_460" align="alignright" width="256" caption="What's this?"][/caption] Emily (my 3 year-old daughter) has a few sets of Chinese character flash cards from her kindergarten. We were using them one night recently when I thought they'd make a good test page for Spinneret. I've been wondering about javascript (never used it before) and ...

Easter eggs at Google and Firefox

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

It was my birthday a few days ago, so I told everybody that I was now "The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything". If you're not familiar with Douglas Adams' book (or the BBC TV serialisation) "The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy", that probably won't mean anything to ...

Clues to the TBH ‘black blog’ author

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_439" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Hex dump of image file"][/caption] I was reading Lim Kit Siang's blog recently and saw the article about the Teoh Beng Hock 'black blog'. LKS is calling it a 'black blog' because it makes some serious allegations about wrong-doing in Selangor. The blog author has posted some ...

File contents hex dump at poditronic.com

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_439" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Hex dump of image file"][/caption] Just added a hex dump page at poditronic.com - very similar code to the "View Server HTTP headers" page, but could be useful to some. The page currently loads just the first 512 bytes of the content at some URL, and present ...

How to get Java class name from static code

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

I thought of one way to do this, but checked Google first to see if there was an easier, more obvious way. Real Gagnon has a method at his site which is similar to the way I thought I could do it, but no less obscure or easy! Here's my code, ...