20090310 Easyjet: the most senior friendly airline ever!

I was booking some flights when I was faced with this drop down list for selecting the date of issue of the passport: I wonder how a passport issued in 1850 will look like. I think it won’t be possible to read it in nowadays electronic readers. It will need manual inspection (carefully, so that [...]

20090211 Stack overbooooom

This could be one of the reasons why I prefer to install a completely new version of Eclipse rather than updating its existing features – and probably why I haven’t done so since I set up Eclipse in this computer ;-) For the record, this happened when I clicked “Select required” while having PDT SDK [...]

20090123 Open interval version number

Now this is something funny! I wanted to check the version of GD in my development machine. As I was right in the middle of php coding, I just did a quick print_r(gd_info()). And what did I get? Array (     [GD Version] => 2.0 or higher     [FreeType Support] => 1   [...]

20090113 How to recruit curious people, the automattic way

I was doing some feeds processing and needed to check their HTTP headers. Oh the surprise when I saw this line among the headers returned by blogs from wordpress.com: X-hacker: If you’re reading this, you should visit automattic.com/jobs and apply to join the fun, mention this header. They aren’t the first ones to find prospective [...]

20081218 eBay scams

Everything began with this scam, which I received several times. I kept copies just for the sake of observing what would follow. Since you know, once s(c|p)ammers get your e-mail address, the rubbish stream won’t stop flowing: The missing ‘Sony Vaio PCG-VGX Brand New’ Hi again, i have no laptop from you by now if [...]