Month: February 2007

Negative Captcha

Negative Captcha

Here’s an interesting thought. The flip side of “prove you aren’t a robot,” is “prove you are human.” Though it’s no easier to prove, at least it places the onus of proof on the spam bot and not your human guests. It’s subtle, but there’s a philisophical difference between requiring people to do something that […]

500+ GB (updated)

It happens to all of us at least once it seems, data loss. Here’s my story, maybe it will get more folks to think about their data and how/where to keep it (better). A couple weeks ago a flood hit my apartment/office area and soaked the desktop system, monitors, equipment *and* back up drive (along […]

Simple Zip Code Geocoding

Simple Zip Code Geocoding

The ability to geocode, or translate into latitude and longitude, postal codes is a fairly useful hack to have in your programming toolbox. Quick and dirty zip geocoding allows you to do some neat things fairly efficiently and with a minimal amount of code. Though it’s U.S. centric, it allows you to add location-based functionality […]

Wifi Liberator

Wifi Liberator

Jonah Brucker-Cohen is one of my favorite artists, his latest – a tactical toolkit to liberate pay-per use wireless networks – Wifi Liberator is an open-source toolkit for a laptop computer that enables its user to “liberate” pay-per-use wireless networks and create a free, open node that anyone can connect to for Internet access. The […]

Wifi Liberator

Wifi Liberator

Jonah Brucker-Cohen is one of my favorite artists, his latest – a tactical toolkit to liberate pay-per use wireless networks – Wifi Liberator is an open-source toolkit for a laptop computer that enables its user to “liberate” pay-per-use wireless networks and create a free, open node that anyone can connect to for Internet access. The […]