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how to update a database column with a random date

I ran into the challenge of updating a database (oracle) table with a random date and thought that my solution might help someone else with a similar challenge. Here goes… First you need to get the Julian day number for your start date. Start date is the date from where you want to begin the randomization. [...]

how does 3-D work?

(via @gizmodo)for more gory details, check out this post.

how much does google know about you?

Warning! by proceeding you may subject yourself to bouts of “OH MY GOD” or “CRAP, THIS IS UNREAL”! ….go ahead, click here to see how much Google knows about you. This is not a hack or any kind of special trick, it’s a service that Google provides (out of the goodness of their own hearts?) to [...]

A few tips and tweaks for firefox 3.6

So you’ve upgraded to the latest and greatest version of firefox…awesome. Firefox 3.6 introduces some amazing new tech from the folks at mozilla labs. More on that here. Apart from what’s new under the hood, here are a few new tweaks that you can enable to get your browser going with even more horsepower. To enable [...]

Speeding up ‘Taking out the trash’

If you are on Mac OS and have ever tried to empty out your time machine backup disk, you’ve no doubt run into this issue. Emptying the trash, when you have just deleted a 100,000+ files will take hours…literally. Fortunately, there are solutions. 1. Try the command line: Open up Terminal.app and go to the trash folder [...]

apple mimicing ‘the matrix’ at wwdc?

Each pulsating icon (yes, those are thousands of little icons on large 30″ cinema displays) represents an app purchase on the app store. Not in real time but way cool nevertheless…observe….and be mesmerized. Video courtesy of TechCrunch

are SD cards that popular, apparently so…

Apple has spoken folks and generally when Apple speaks, everyone listens. Placing an SD card slot into the new MacBook Pro is a signal of things to come but the question is what are these “things”? Most people, including me, were left scratching our collective heads when we heard of the new SD slot. Could [...]

does growth equal conformity?

as businesses grow, do they need to "conform to the norm" in order to attract and retain the masses?

house cleaning for the mac…get your geek on

(Note: I have not tested this on Snow Leopard. Drop me a note if you’ve tried on SL and it worked.) More and more people I know are jumping onto the Mac OS platform via their purchases of Macbooks or iMac’s. Eventually, everyone runs into issues around system sluggishness and their computer just seems to run [...]

use twitter as a prediction service?

What twitter brings to the table, and does it better than anyone out there, is the ability to hear what people are talking about…in real time. Twitter search was going to be something dynamic and a game changer and this is what the company’s management team recognized when they acquired the search engine Summize and [...]