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You knew it was going to happen, but did we ever imagine the hackers to be culpable? Palm is silencing the Pre Dev Wiki by “politely” warning them to not discuss tethering, as it may anger The Sprint Gods. Palm needs every developer to extol the awesomeness of this device and the wholesomeness of the [...]

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2009-05-08 :: mark // General + Internet
Konami code on Facebook

Facebook makes a funny. First read about this here. Summary: enter the Konami code (up up down down left right left right B A Enter) outside of a textbox, and you get lens flares with clicks and down/up keys. Interesting! Looking through the static javascript, you can see the easter egg code, pasted in here [...]

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Ah, the beauty of open source software. This is a long post that started with a simple problem. At work, we live behind the Great Olin Firewall (GOF). I checked out some code from an internal Subversion repository over HTTP. Now, I’m outside the GOF and I want to commit some important changes. We have [...]

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No one in Korea uses a Macintosh. Thus, it makes perfect sense that they would not support Mac OS X in any web applications or public services, such as city-wide wireless. One such provider is Korea Telecom’s NESPOT service. This is the nearly-ubiquitous blanket of wireless that covers much of Seoul. From your Universities, to [...]

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2008-03-11 :: mark // Internet
I broke it

Well, I succumbed to peer pressure and signed up for the face eating monster… er, Facebook. Yes, I am afraid already. Hopefully, I won’t start turning into a teenager anymore than I already think I am. Anyways, I click on the registration email and I get the image below. Awesome, I broke it. On my [...]

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