Another Very Poor Man’s Google Analytics Post
A bit ago I wrote a post about using command line tools to get stats of this blog. I recently wrote another version of this to get the most popular […]
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Fixed theme, WP updated, more WP hacks
Back when I fixed this blog’s instance of wordpress, I broke the theme. Today I fixed it. W00T! Sadly, this is because I found even more instances of a hacked […]
Keep those passwords safe
A problem with online security is that there’s no standards for passwords. You may come up with the silly simple single password you use for all site. This works well, […]
On theft, privacy and data loss
I’ve recently taken a serious look at the reality of theft of computers as well as ensuring privacy and reducing data loss should such a theft occur. Take a moment […]
The very, very poor man’s Google Analytics: tail, cut, sort, uniq & wc
I still have what most would call an unfounded fear of privacy when it comes to Google. They may receive a copy of every email I send to my friends […]
Ruby-less way to add key frames to flv videos for the likes of JWPlayer
At work we’ve been working on a good way to roll our own videos. We initially started with the generic off the shelf swf player + flv to make our […]
Rogue MySQL queries
Do you you ever have those moments where you’re trying out a query in MySQL and realize after you executed it that it’s going to kill your database server? If […]
Fancy Diff
simple diff Let’s say you’ve edited a long HTML file and want find what’s changed against the original. If you were on the command line, you’d turn to ‘diff’, right? […]