Michael S. Clark

Why does loading take so long between legs of the “Duel” events? It’s the same course and the same cars, so why does it feel like it loads everything all over again? Have they never heard of caching? </$0.02>

[wehrdo] has posted a guide with an extremely low-tech solution to password management. he literally put the passwords on a floppy disk in the form of paper glued to the magnetic film. for those that still have some floppy disks around, this is a zero cost hack. we wouldn’t recommend this for state secrets, but [...]

I was looking for a way to use WordPress permalinks under IIS6 without having to use a custom 404 handler, and after some searching, I came across this: This ISAPI filter removes the index.php from WordPress’s permalinks on IIS,making your permalinks more pretty and SEO friendly. Because IIS does not support mod_rewrite module for rewriting [...]

I’ve officially launched Alfie’s own website, also based on WordPress. You can find it at http://www.alfieclark.com

The Pro Shop that I developed at Computa Services for the Carnoustie Golf Links, is now live. It uses concurrent AJAX, calling a lightweight PHP+XML web service layer to communicate with a Microsoft SQL Server. The management application that the staff at the Links use to administer the bookings is written in C#, using C# [...]

I recently created an application called Karaokidex to index, rate and play (using KaraFun) karaoke tracks (mp3+g) for use during karaoke shows, and it had it’s live debut on 3rd May at the Red Lion Caravan Park in Arbroath. It also allows you to rate each track, allowing you to differentiate between different versions of [...]

Baffle your coworkers with an "Insert Coin" message on the office printer using the HP Printer Job Language (HPPJL) command set. [Via: Lifehacker]

Clever network admin Pete decided to mess with his wifi-piggybacking neighbors by flipping all the images they’d see on web pages upside down. [Via: Lifehacker]

I changed some of my “default” software (the applications I install on my vanilla Windows) recently, based on the previous post. TextPad out; NotePad++ in. TextPad is proprietary, NotePad++ is freeware (this seems to be a theme), and TextPad doesn’t seem to be updated very frequently Paint Shop Pro out; GIMP in. When PSP was [...]

I recently purchased a small funky rubber USB flash drive from Integral with a view to making it a platform for storing portable applications, i.e., applications that can be executed directly from the drive without installing anything on the host machine. This is especially useful for anti-malware and browser or email apps. Here’s a few [...]