I went to my website, Google Community, and read a post about someone who got a virus by visiting the home page of my site. How is that possible? I hadn’t noticed it. Well, they were using Internet Explorer. So I fired up IE, went to Google Community, and sure enough: script dialog boxes appeared,…Continue Reading…
I didn’t realize what this icon was until I enlarged it. It was really bothering me because it was a flashing image on top of my AIM icon in the tray area of the taskbar. I couldn’t figure out what it was, but it kept blinking, so I became to determined to figure it out….Continue Reading…
So much programming to learn, so little time. I read about The String class online, but even though we use g++, I couldn’t get z = upcase(x) to work. I learned that I can’t do cin.ignore(1000,’\n’) unless I’m sure that I’ve requested input, because otherwise it stops the user until 1000 characters or \n (newline…Continue Reading…
I just started using Yahoo Radio (LaunchCast) for the first time. I am very impressed. A lot of work went into this. And I don’t think they make much money from it. It’s really amazing: you have a wide selection of artists and music, and you can rate the songs, albums, artists and genres for…Continue Reading…
My roommate had his Assignment #1 for CompSci 101 (I skipped ahead to 102, in which we use C++). He asked about how to test it, so I decided to help. I considered various options for compilers. Microsoft Visual Studio, Borland, GCC? Finally I decided that the method most likely used by students at the…Continue Reading…
The year was 1996. I was creating my first website. It was about Pokemon, games, and programming. Life was simpler back then. The Internet felt like a relatively small community. The number of webmasters was a fraction of what it is today. There was less information. Spam was not a problem, search engines were not…Continue Reading…