Recently, I noticed some strangeness on my home wireless network. Sometimes the speed would be slower than normal, I couldn't print to my printer, and some of my more advanced router settings (for port forwarding, firewall, etc.) would seem to be "lost". As it turns out, my laptop was attaching... (Read More)

I have a love-hate relationship with Palm. First, the love: for starters, Palm-based PDAs do everything I want a PDA to do. Just give me the basics, such as a nice contact list, memo/notepad, a to-do list, etc. Palm has always done that, and that's all it really needed to do. If I wanted add-ons, I... (Read More)

Last August, Business 2.0 magazine published an article that speculated Google was considering building a U.S. broadband network capable of targeting specific advertising to users, based on the location of their WiFi. The so-called "Google.net"" or "Google WiFi" caused much speculation, however,... (Read More)

In my last entry, I described the classic "locker problem". Another favorite class of logic problems are what I call "weighing" problems. Eight Balls and a Balance Scale That sounds like the title of a really bad movie, but the problem is straightfoward enough: you're given a typical balance... (Read More)

I'm a math freak. During my "school days", I hated homework, but loved the extra credit questions. Once I learned something, doing 100 problems seemed more like a punishment for learning than it did a learning exercise. Those extra credit problems often salvaged my grades. Recently my daughter (who... (Read More)

Web Developer. Webmaster. Web Designer. What do these terms mean? Which one are you? In fact, these terms have been used and misused so much that they are in danger of losing any distinct meaning. This article attempts to define and defend these labels and their meanings. "Webmaster" in particular... (Read More)

McAfee, Inc., a leader in intrusion prevention, announced that its security services group, Foundstone Professional Services, will release a whitepaper on Microsoft ASP.NET Forms Authentication and "cookie replay" attacks. The whitepaper will be located at... (Read More)

Most ASP.NET Developers have no previous web development experience. Is that a true or false statement? I suspect it's true, but found no statistics to back it up. However, judging from posts in several technical forum sites, one certainly gets that impression. "Halt App Until JavaScript Confirm... (Read More)

I promised "wordplay" in this blog, so here's the first challenge. List as many homophonic antonyms as you can. First, recall that homophones are two words that sound the same, but are spelled differently. An example would be "wear" and "where". Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings:... (Read More)

I'll admit it right up front: I'm an old guy, and this is a "kids these days" rant. Pull up your pants, comb your hair, and for Pete's sake, learn to type! I'm referring to what is variously known as "txt lingo", "txt msg spk", or my own term: laziness. Something you youngsters may not know: you... (Read More)

I went to update my eyeglass prescription. I thought I'd try out contacts. The optometrist said in all his many years, my reaction classified as the best freakout he'd ever seen. I personally don't recall all the details... I must have slammed my head pretty hard into the back of the seat. Once I... (Read More)

I've started this blog to spur discussion among like-minded Daniweb members. The topics will be wide-ranging. In this case, a "like-minded" person is anyone who shares the same personal and professional interests. That said, discussions among people who feel very differently about an issue could be... (Read More)