Archive for computers

As we all know, Flickr is the best photo sharing site (if you haven’t heard it yet, Microsoft is buying Yahoo, who own Flickr… so there’s a very real possibility that Microsoft will kill Flickr, which would make me hate them even more). Almost unbelievably, the flickr source is only 60k lines of php and […]

As I mentioned in the previous post, I needed a CAPTCHA algorithm. As I couldn’t find anything simple and usable that would do what I want (ie follow the basic principles of captcha creation (readibility for humans, and hopefully unreadibility for machines)), I decided to write my own. The purpose of this was just to […]

In wordpress database, column comment_status is of type enum(’open’, ‘closed’, ‘registered_only’). But for some reason, ‘registered_only’ is never used anywhere…
I use disable comments plugin, which is excellent because it is very simple. Here is the relevant part:

$wpdb->query(‘UPDATE wp_posts
SET comment_status = "closed", ping_status = "closed"
WHERE DATEDIFF(NOW(), post_date) > ‘ . $days);

And if you want it to […]

I didn’t plan it. I just woke up today and knew I’d have a new blog in the evening.
As for colours, a great deal of thinking went into that. Yesterday I read a lot about readability on the web. I think it’s something very important that many people completely miss. First, Verdana and Georgia, that’s […]

It all started about a year ago, at a go tournament in Blansko, where I played a game called “fujtajblíci”. I enjoyed it a lot, so I thought I could create online version. But as you might know, it is quite a huge leap from thinking about doing something to actually doing it.
Anyway, now I […]

Seriously, what would you think about a language that is weakly typed and uses the same operator for concatenation and addition?
I think it’s insane.
Well, so much for my first encounter with JavaScript. And although I encountered way more problems (most of which were caused by my own stupidity, as usual), the fact that the plus […]

Thanks to Orwen who notified me (crap, I just reread the email and noticed that the part “I’m not going to be there because I have lectures at the time” was not written by him but quoted because of forwarding, and that he asked me if I was going to be there) I attended a […]

I use the internet all the time. About 20% of my internet usage involves searching for some kind of encyclopaedic info (dictionaries included). Another 20% consists of mostly random funny or interesting things, like reddit, digg, links from friends. And finally, communication with other people makes up around 60%.
I sometimes do write emails, but mostly […]

I tried registering on eBay today. Their help pages say that there are two ways to verify an account — either credit card (I don’t have any) or certain email address. First I tried my gmail account, which obviously didn’t work. The next step was an email on the domain tasuki.org, which I own (it […]

I want to have some real Hex and TwixT boards, so I’ve been playing around with PostScript a bit.
I found Larry Doolittle’s Hex board and started editing it without knowing almost anything about PostScript. The results were - you guessed it - disastrous. PostScript is not really intuitive language (for me, at least). But then […]