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Google Makes You Money

Today I updated Spread AdSense, a small one-page site that I created to help people learn more about AdSense. I also added information about the Google Pack, which includes a free edition of Norton Antivirus. Try it out and let me know how it works for you.

100 Prisoners and Attic Switch Puzzles

This was posted on the Summer Accepted 2006 list by Christoph. Imagine a prison. No way to escape. 100 prisoners are kept in solitary cells, they cannot communicate at all. The guard proposes a little game to the prisoners – if they can solve it they will be released. Before the game starts all prisoners…Continue Reading…

I love Yahoo search!

Here’s yet another question that I had which I would never have found the solution to if it wasn’t for Yahoo. Google couldn’t give me the answer. My search is: “which of the following has an element that is less than any other element in that set” (with the quotes) If you try the search…Continue Reading…

Foreign Countries and Summer of Code

I found this post to be very interesting (from Summer-Accepted-2006): I have a problem with “issuing the payment in the currency of the country listed in my shipping address”. The country I chose from the list (I had to :)) is Yugoslavia, but Yugoslavia hasn’t been around for 3-4 years. It’s called “Serbia and Montenegro”…Continue Reading…

Glossy screens suck

An interesting article at Ars Technica in reaction to the glossy screens now used in the new 13″ MacBooks. Basically: the new Apple laptops have glossy screens because Steve Jobs is an idiot.

Digital Cameras and AE AF

We have a Kodak EasyShare 5 MP camera. My mom and sister were trying to take a close-up photo, and the camera wouldn’t focus, instead complaining with “AE AF”. I guessed that the letters stood for Auto Exposure and Auto Focus, which I was right about. But what does it mean, really? I turned to…Continue Reading…