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Comparing Images and Measuring their Similarity in PHP

I’m very proud of myself tonight. You see, I’m a programmer at heart. Yet it has been a long time since I just programmed something for fun. Not a contest, not a class. Just out of pure usefulness and interest. Here’s the story. I setup a webcam to watch my room for the day, and…Continue Reading…

Grab the Latest Post from Multiple WordPress Blogs

I searched for a solution to this for hours, and ended up adapting some older code I’ve been using on my own website for years. Sometimes the best solution is the simplest one. If you use WordPress and you want to put some of your posts on your homepage, this is one way to do…Continue Reading…

Weird Tab Behavior in Firefox

Is this a bug? I was working on the TCF website, happily coding along, until I hit a snag: whenever I’d click on a link, it seems to be redirecting me back to the page I was on. Okay, I shortly realized I was mistaken: I was actually not moving at all, and just staying…Continue Reading…

HackTool.Linux.ProcHider.a

Running your own server and writing your own scripts is really tough work. Now I need to go learn about HackTool.Linux.ProcHider.a. It looks like there are serious vulnerabilities not only in my own scripts, but in CuteNews as well. If you use CuteNews, please check your installs and make sure they haven’t been compromised. For…Continue Reading…

How the Palm Foleo is as great as the iPhone

I heard about the Palm Foleo on one of Lao Laporte’s podcasts, so I looked up Palm and checked it out. It’s very intriguing. If you haven’t seen it yet, take a look. The Palm Foleo is basically a very small laptop. The appealing thing to me is that it runs Linux. I love small…Continue Reading…

Runtime installation error

I was installing Paint Shop Pro 8 on my sisters new tablet pc when we got this error: Could not register flash06007900. I’m not sure what fixed it, but it worked after trying to find a fix and then just trying again. I tried searching for a fix on Google, but found nothing.