Michael S. Clark

[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 [...]

URL shortening services are ubiquitous on Twitter and other cramped online spaces. They won’t all last, as tr.im has demonstrated, and their shutdowns could annihilate your linking history. If you own a domain, though, you can host your own service. [Via: lifehacker] Updated: Since I’m using Google Apps, I simply installed Google Short Links from Google [...]

A couple of useful links for registering domain names: http://domai.nr http://www.gandi.net

I’ve now successfully migrated my amalgamated my two existing servers to a single Windows Home Server, allowing me to host websites and clickonce applications and stream media to my XBox 360, all from a single box. The changes are listed below: Upgraded PHP to 5.3.0, which provided a few challenges, as it doesn’t support ISAPI [...]

It’s a bit fresher.

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 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 [...]

I’ve just found my house and car on Google Maps Street View! They said they’d done Dundee, but I didn’t realise that meant the whole of Dundee and Angus too. w00t!

I’ve been playing about with a multi-threaded download manager for RapidShare in C# for a while now and I was looking around for better version control than a Windows Briefcase directory. Since this is a personal project, I didn’t want to use our SVN code repository at Computa, so I had a look at Google [...]