Hoosgot

http://www.mysociety.org/2008/10/31/lazyweb-decent-one-off-faxing-service/ asks Hoosgot,
LazyWeb hear me - can I please have a service where I can send a one off fax from my web browser, paying per page with a credit card or paypal or similar? I’ve just spent two hours examining numerous fax services, trying ones that failed to deliver the fax, rejecting ones […]

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http://www.bram.us/2008/10/30/ps_bramustextconvert-psd2txt-and-txt2psd-for-the-masses/ asks Hoosgot,
What if you could extract all text strings from a PSD file into a TXT file? Sure, it’s possible, thanks to PS_BRAMUS.TextExport, the PSD2TXT script I wrote a few months ago. Now, what if you wanted to do that in the opposite direction and import strings from a TXT file into a […]

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http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/10/30/445/ asks Hoosgot,
Yesterday was somewhat oddly spent. Began the day by reading up on Workflow Management: Models, Methods, and Systems (Cooperative Information Systems) and then somehow moved into re-reading Dreaming in Code. And, it all started because I thought of brushing up stuff before I started wrestling with YAWL. Which brings up the lazyweb […]

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http://fourone.org/chris/2008/10/27/twitter-updates-for-2008-10-27-2/ asks Hoosgot,
@stevenf That’s reduckulous. in reply to stevenf # project idea: building an open source voting machine. # Would like to strike the phrases “Make no mistake” and “Have no doubt” from the global lexicon. # Stupid cat scratched my face. Grumpy. Not really her fault, I did try to pick her up, […]

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http://www.insideview.ie/irisheyes/2008/10/two-years-tweet.html asks Hoosgot,
AN OLD CALENDAR reminds me that in October 2006, I sent a few messages from a table at the IIA Net Visionary Awards to the Twitterverse. Fewer than 200 Irish people were using Twitter back then and nobody sitting around my table was tweeting at the time but at least two of […]

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http://mces.blogspot.com/2008/10/timezone-in-http-header.html asks Hoosgot,
Dear Lazyweb: Web services are used from all over the globe. How is it that the HTTP request does not include the timezone the request is coming from? Context: A few years ago I wrote a multi-system calendar widget in PHP, called Behdad Calendar . It has many Iranians users in and […]

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http://blog.whatfettle.com/2008/10/27/suggested-books-for-an-aspiring-hacker/ asks Hoosgot,
I’ve been asked by the parents of an enthusiastic 14 year old computer nut for some fun “ICT” reads. Resisting an urge to cry “oxymoron”, I morphed what sounded like a request to reinforce the current curriculum of government procurement writ large in today’s schools into a subversive introduction to old school […]

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http://www.evilnickname.org/weblog/2008/10/27/fair-is-fair/ asks Hoosgot,
Lazyweb, you disappoint me. We had a deal. And you didn’t hold your end of the bargain. And since fair is fair—and I’m a mean bastard like that—I’m not updating my website tonight either. And that has nothing to do with me leaving my USB-stick with some updates someplace else what-so-ever. So. […]

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http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2008/10/26/tiny-url-and-search-engines/ asks Hoosgot,
Tiny URL and search engines? 26-Oct-08 How does using a TinyURL affect ranking of content on search engines, anybody know? What I mean — if I link to a story on my blog via Twitter, Identi.ca, et al, how does that affect the rank of the content for Google […]

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http://james.lab6.com/2008/10/25/ssds-an-end-to-disk-thrashing asks Hoosgot,
The new Intel SSDs look revolutionary from a performance perspective. When Moore’s law has switched everybody over to them in, oh, say, 5 years time, our PCs will go quiet. I’m 99% positive that’s a good thing, but there may be one unintended side-effect: a lot of software bugs are discovered […]

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