I never thought I would find anything likeable about Los Angeles, until last week when I discovered the San Gorgonio Wilderness. Ok, this is really about an hour drive outside Los Angeles, but hard to believe an area so beautiful is near the smog city. The San Gorgonio Wilderness is situated in the San Bernardino — Continue reading »
Oracle and Bing
📆 August 27, 2009
Oracle has already bagged the U.S. regulatory approval to acquire Sun. If the Europeans go along as well, Sun will become a part of Oracle by September. That means Oracle will also own Java, the popular open source programming language used widely on the Web. Today while installing a Java upgrade I was presented with — Continue reading »
Google Chrome View Source Bug
📆 August 18, 2009
Many web designers and developers use the "View Source" feature of browsers to check the HTML data behind a Web page. It's perhaps one of most basic debugging tools that has been a part of every browser since the beginning. The Chrome browser by Google is no exception and it also has the "View Source" — Continue reading »
Stock Market – Back to Greed?
📆 August 10, 2009
For those of us who held on to our 401(k) investments and stuck to our contributions even as the market was plummeting, the rewards are nearly at hand. Looking at my 401(k) balance I was pleased to see a bit of life back in it. The stock market is still off its highs (for NASDAQ — Continue reading »
Credit Card Foreign Transaction Fees
📆 July 21, 2009
This is probably old news to some but it came as a surprise to me. As I have done so for many years, I booked a flight online with a foreign carrier with offices in the US and made a credit card payment in US Dollars. About a month later I got slapped with an — Continue reading »
Pandora Starts Charging
📆 July 7, 2009
In case you don't know who or what Pandora is, it's a music Web site that learns about your taste as you tag or rate the songs it plays, so after a while it ends up playing mostly what you like. Pandora's algorithm is decent but far from perfect and sometimes it tries to please — Continue reading »
Google Translate, Persian
📆 July 3, 2009
Google Translate has been around for some time. you paste in a block of text or a URL, set the source and target languages and off it goes, translating. Aside from the omnipresent Spanish, German, and French translations, Google had been steadily adding other languages to its list, save one, Persian (known as Farsi in — Continue reading »
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