I tried paying my Corporate American Express bill online. The online form told me that the amount due was $2,420.53 (prefilling the box with that exact value), so I selected that balance and authorized payment. When I submitted the form I received the following error: Error: The amount you...
Here's a really nice JavaScript equivalent of ColdFusion's tag .
Courtesy of our friends at Fig Leaf Software, check out the Adobe race car . You can also register to be part of Adobe's Pit Crew at Talladega Speedway.
While in Bangalore last week I snapped this picture of a car, a SCORPIO!
I am in the airport in Mumbai, the city formerly known as Bombay, en route from Bangalore to London. India is a vast country, about a third the size of the continental United States, and home to over 1,100,000,000 (four times the population of the U.S., and second only to China). My experiences...
Hello from Paris, where I have a short 2 hour stopover here on the way to Bangalore, India. I am flying Air France, an airline I have not flown in a long time, so this may be old news to some, but it was a first for me, and had to share. The plane was equipped with personal screens in the back of...
I needed to replace my router/firewall recently (my old Symantec Firewall Appliance was behaving erratically and regularly killing connections, and reinstalling the firmware did not help). I looked at multiple options, and ended up selecting a SonicWALL device. My initial experience with SonicWALL...
Want to write your own games for Xbox 360? Microsoft has announced the availability of the XNA beta , initially to build games for Windows, but eventually to build games for Xbox, too. More details on the FAQ page. Now you have a really compelling reason to learn C#!
Today's news about a foiled plot to blow up flights between the U.K. and the U.S. is very upsetting. Not the plot itself, as despicable as it is, what is really upsetting is the response. No taking liquids on to planes, "sorry maam, we know airlines don't feed you anymore, but that water bottle is...
I don't play video games much anymore, I tinker sporadically, but wouldn't call myself an active gamer, at least not like I used to be. Back in the 80s and early 90s I was a big Infocom and Sierra fan. (I actually wrote the official walkthroughs for several Sierra games way back when, although I am...