This nice young chap has created a couple of nice diagrams of the headers for TCP, IP, UDP and Multicast packets.
August 2006 Archives
Whatever it is you’re currently working on, you need to read this article right now.
Released November 2005 this Oreilly book has a comprehensive list of user interface patterns.
The ABC has a story about Wagga airport being closed for 40mins after a 14 year old boy mentioned the word “bomb”. The Australian has the story of a man killed while lying in the middle of the road. I remember a story a couple of weeks ago where someone lay in the road in order to get a passer by to stop. Just some of the things that make you “facepalm” in the morning…
This is one of the best coke ad’s I’ve ever seen.
Well for some strange reason the right channel of my onboard sound card has died. After checking the speakers and cables, I get the same results with headphones plugged in the front or the back of the PC. :( Downloaded and reinstalled the latest drivers and double checked all the speaker configuration settings. UPDATE: Front panel headphones sockets weren’t soldered very well and thats what caused the drop outs. I resoldered the connections with speaker wire and it’s working properly again.
Around the time I read Biggles, way back in the 80s on my 8086 I had a game called sopwith. A new Google mashup reminded me of it a lot… Check out and enjoy Googles.
Michael McDerment over at Think Vitamin has written a great article about how to go about tracking the various stages of your web applications sales funnel.
Von Glitschka has produced some fantastic excersises for improving your illustration skills.
