Monthly Archives: December 2007

Web development woes

One thing I love about working with software is that no matter how much you know, you can still be surprised by tiny little quirks that lurk in every software system. Two great examples from today: Firefox is happy to follow HTTP redirects while trying to fetch an image. IE seems to not be so [...]

So that’s why my computer’s keyboard sucks…

I’ve noticed an ever-increasing trend on my favorite laptop that sometimes it just doesn’t feel like hearing every keypress. It’ll often leave some random letter out of a word if I’m typing at full speed. Today, I finally spotted that it only happens in my web browser, and furthermore, I noticed that it only happens [...]